“There was a very deep connection and it ended rather brutally. But this one in particular I really fell for and believed in my heart that he was The One,” she says, keeping his identity to herself and revealing only that he is not in showbiz. I’ve been through quite a few – same man, different name – throughout my life. “What happened was I’d gone through quite a major heartbreak. Her life, she says, changed rather dramatically at the age of 43. “The amount of times I had people say to me, ‘Oh my God, you must have the most fantastic life,’ and I used to wonder, ‘What is it you think I do? Lounge about in limos, jump around on red carpets and have six naked men lift me on to the bar?’ The reality was getting up at 4.15am, 12 to 15-hour days, stressing out as to whether you are any good, and being exhausted.” People were expecting me to have some sort of celebrity status, and I didn’t know how to. Inside, I was just Julia – the frumpy girl who used to burst out of her school blouse. I didn’t see it hitting me or understand it. “The level of recognition with Ab Fab came so thick and fast with all the pandemonium it attracted. As a result, I just had to put on a front and a face all the time.
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I don’t think I knew how to deal with things and manage myself very well. “I was utterly miserable in my twenties and thirties. Julia goes on to reveal that she is much happier in her forties than she was in her Ab Fab days – even though she admits that, unlike sensible Saffy, she was quite the party girl. What has changed for me is that now I just want someone who is happy – not someone who makes me happy, because that’s an inside job.” But I don’t want to keep learning the same lesson over and over. “In some ways, I’m grateful to all the people I’ve been out with for putting up with me, and for the fact that I’ve learned so much from my mistakes. I think I have been a commitment-phobe for many years. “Of course you want a lovely partnership – I’m only human.īut a lot of the men I chose to go out with were emotionally unavailable, because I was emotionally unavailable myself at the time, which is why I was drawn towards them. She is also OK with being single after a succession of relationships over the years with various actors and performers, including Alan Davies, with whom she appeared in Jonathan Creek, and Keith Allen, her co-star in Martin Chuzzlewit. Anyway, it wasn’t actually a choice like, ‘I’m never having children.’ It just didn’t happen and I’m OK with that.” “I mean, there are moments as a woman when you think, ‘Oh, I quite fancy being a mum today,’ and then by the end of it you think, ‘Thank God I’m not!’ I would have been one of those obsessive, full-on, 24-hour mums, but I didn’t want that because I love my career. So when asked if she’d like to play the role of a mother in real life, she is absolutely adamant. She is also a proud auntie to Nadia’s daughters Maddy, 11, and Kiki, seven, and Dina’s sons Zak, 26, and Finlay, 16.
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Julia is more than happy to live there alone, when she’s not spending time with her family (older sisters Dina and TV presenter Nadia her Jordanian actor father Nadim and English mother Roberta). The good thing is that I feel so safe now – this building is just one of those places that has a really good atmosphere.” “I don’t know if it will end up in a drawer somewhere, but it’s helped to provide an outlet while I’ve been stuck doing my house. “I can’t stop writing – I’m like a woman possessed,” she says. She hasn’t appeared on television since last year when she played a murderess in Agatha Christie’s Marple, but meanwhile she has discovered another creative string to her bow, writing a children’s book about parallel worlds. Home now for Julia is a Grade I-listed townhouse in Bath, which she has been restoring for the past 16 months – something that has taken up most of her time. It’s only when I moved from there and relaxed that I suddenly realised the amount of tension I’d been living under.” I was like one of those girls in horror films who walk down the corridor and open doors they are not supposed to open. “I got so used to it all – hearing stuff being thrown down the staircase, lights shaking and people jumping on the ceiling. Or I’d pick up the phone to talk to somebody on one of those walkabout land lines and it would suddenly bleep that it was busy, which meant that someone upstairs had picked it up – and I lived on my own. “Latches on doors used to be bent backwards in the morning, to the point where I used to keep a pair of pliers handy to bend them back because I didn’t want the cat to get out. “There were all sorts of strange experiences,” she reveals. For five years she lived alone in a woodland cottage in Somerset, where she became almost used to paranormal activity.
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