Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie
A podcast by LiSTNR
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22 Episoade
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Chapter 22: you will become an anti-cool girl
Publicat: 27.02.2018 -
Chapter 21: you will learn how to be a functioning adult, and realise you don't care about being a functioning adult
Publicat: 19.02.2018 -
Chapter 20: someone will play Jenga with your face and their penis, and you will consider it a sexual revolution
Publicat: 06.02.2018 -
Chapter 19: you will gain ninety kilos, and it will be the best thing that has ever happened to you
Publicat: 30.01.2018 -
Chapter 18: you will watch your mum attempt suicide, and realise that she's the only one who understands you
Publicat: 23.01.2018 -
Chapter 17: you will end up in a mental institution
Publicat: 16.01.2018 -
Chapter 16: your second set of parents will abandon you. damn.
Publicat: 11.01.2018 -
Chapter 15: you will go to a very crappy drama school and do a very crappy naked scene
Publicat: 19.12.2017 -
Chapter 14: you will lose your virginity, followed by your mind
Publicat: 12.12.2017 -
Chapter 13: you will try to fit in at a very exclusive private boarding school - and fail spectacularly
Publicat: 05.12.2017 -
Chapter 12: your mum will decide she is a lesbian, and she'll pick her new lover over you
Publicat: 28.11.2017 -
Chapter 11: you will get your first period, and it won't be the only blood you have to deal with that year
Publicat: 31.10.2017 -
Chapter 10: your foster dad will stick his hands down your pants, and you will feel so, so lucky
Publicat: 24.10.2017 -
Chapter 9: your mum will chase you with a butcher's knife
Publicat: 10.10.2017 -
Chapter 8: your dad will finally die, and you'll be relieved
Publicat: 03.10.2017 -
Chapter 7: you will get caught masturbating while watching Rugrats
Publicat: 26.09.2017 -
Chapter 6: you will be in rehab several times before you're ten years old
Publicat: 19.09.2017 -
Chapter 5: Jesus will propose to your sister, and not you. dick.
Publicat: 12.09.2017 -
Chapter 4: your friends will find a dead body in the bush, and it will be your dad
Publicat: 06.09.2017 -
Chapter 3: you will be a houso kid
Publicat: 30.08.2017
In 2015, Rosie Waterland published her first book, a memoir called "The Anti-Cool Girl". The book is about her childhood, her growing up, and her becoming an adult; all with mentally ill, drug and alcohol addicted parents, child protection, foster care, caravans and couches. There were crazy and very difficult times but also some funny times too. Rosie is 30 now, her mum Lisa is now 53. Since the book came out, the one question Rosie is always asked is more than any other is, "Has your Mum read the book?" Lisa hadn't read it for a while, because her drinking was so bad that she physically or emotionally couldn't. But in 2016, Lisa got sober. She has maintained that sobriety for the longest period Rosie has ever seen and.. she has finally read the book. She has many thoughts. The first of which is that most of Rosie's memoir is a lie. Now is their time to talk all about it. In each episode Rosie reads a chapter from the book, and then Rosie and Lisa talk through it - is it all true or false? What really happened? Each chapter becomes a real conversation about the past, present and future for Rosie and Lisa.
