Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens.

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

As a young child, I suffered all sorts of digestive problems and was constantly under the weather.

But it was my parents I longed for mostly. I wanted to be a little girl again and cuddle into them, wriggling in between them like I'd done in their bed when I was three or four, snug and warm in the safest place in the world.

Instead I had Hell.

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.