Daisy May Cooper says relationship with brother Charlie has suffered

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Daisy May Cooper has spoken candidly about the “f***ing horrible” experience of drifting from her brother and This Country collaborator Charlie Cooper in recent years. Because at the minute, it doesn’t feel worth it to sacrifice my relationship with my brother – which was what all this was about in the first place, and you lose sight of that.” She continued: “People come along who want to make you into something, and they’ve got their own agenda, and that f***ing separates you. And it’s f***ing horrible… I get these brief spurts of happiness, where I’ll be on a walk and I’ll forget that I’ve got to pay my tax, or that I’ve got to sort my relationship out with my brother.” Charlie and Daisy May Cooper in ‘This Country’ Daisy and Charlie lived in poverty in the years before This Country was made, with Daisy saying in a recent interview that she has a “phobia” of phones because of her experiences with debt collectors. I had to get rid of it.” You can read The Independent’s full interview with Daisy May Cooper here.