She deliberately failed her 11-plus exam at school, causing her to be sent to a secondary modern school rather than a grammar school, so she would be allowed to pursue her childhood ambition of going to drama school.
[on her late husband's marriage to Fiona Fullerton] He'd had a brief marriage before and considered it a small part of his life because it was a mistake. He never wanted to talk about it and always considered I was his only wife.
