Ruby Wax on the age of celebrity, at 5x15

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Ruby Wax on the age of celebrity, at 5x15

27 Sep 2010

Speakers: Ruby Wax

Ruby Wax spoke about the necessity for reinvention and the pitfalls of the age of celebrity. She chartered her own rise to fame, from being a friendless loner in high school to being part of the Royal Shakespeare Company and writing comedy with French and Saunders; “scratch the surface of any famous person and you’ll find a loser from school.”

She revealed that she had become clinically depressed and spoke about how embarrassed she had been, and about how hard it was to talk about. Finding herself as ‘the poster girl for mental illness’ was not something she was prepared for. She tells us what changes she made to get through tough times and urges that “if you lose your curiosity, you’re as good as dead.”