Simon Amstell

My relationship with my mum is probably the defining one of my life. I was a really shy kid. I wouldn't go to parties. A teacher suggested I go to drama club to bring me out of my shell, but I was too shy to go alone. So she would sit outside the drama club for hours while I was learning to talk out loud like other human beings.

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