Miranda Hart thinks fame is 'meaningless'
Miranda Hart hopes young people are beginning to realise that fame is "meaningless".
Miranda Hart wants young people to realise fame is "meaningless".
The 53-year-old actress has struggled with Lyme Disease and ME for over a decade and admitted her illness made her appreciate what is really important in life after previously getting "sucked into the whole productivity machine" when writing seasons two and three of her his comedy series Miranda.
Speaking to pupils at her old school, Downe House, in Berkshire at their annual Education Conference this week, Daily Mail online reports she told how she needed to "find the joy again" by "letting go of any jealousy or comparison or need".
She added: "I remember thinking, 'I must maintain my fame.' I don't want to be one of those people where they say, 'I wonder what happened to her?' And it took me years to think, 'What a load of bulls***!'
"'I'd been told that that was important. It's taken me years but I've realised fame is meaningless."
While Miranda experience "the most acute nostalgia" for her happy times at school when she was ill, thoughts of her glittering career never crossed her mind.
She noted: "I never once drifted to memories of taking a bow on stage or accepting an award or dressing up to be judged on a red carpet or the pressure of writing comedy or lack of freedom of going for a walk without being asked for a selfie that the ridiculousness and many other things about fame bring.
"I really hope that Gen Z and below are starting to know that fame cannot bring happiness!"
Miranda sat for the talk after recently experiencing a "slight relapse" in her health condition, and insisted she would give up her success "in a heartbeat" for what really matters".
The comic recently finished filming Celebrity Traitors and she admitted she didn't enjoy "15-hour days filming, getting up at 5am", which she suggested could put her off the "marvellous idea" of her playing a future Time Lady in Dr. Who.
