Dad cheating on Mum cost me my privileged private education - but, in a strange way, I owe my success to his fracturing of the family
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Dad cheating on Mum cost me my privileged private education - but, in a strange way, I owe my success to his fracturing of the family

Daily Mail  

Aged 12, I sat hunched at the top of the stairs, listening to my parents argue late into the night. The next day, as Dad drove me to school – a selective private girls’ school 20 minutes from our house – he told me that he and Mum had grown apart. I’d always loved drama and campaigned to get our own theatre built – at the state school we’d use the village hall. I still get asked, surprisingly often: ‘Where did you go to school?’ Everyone in my core friendship group attended private school, and they all know which one is which. But because of all I went through – changing from private to state school, losing my home and my father – I matured quickly, and I’m a tough cookie, well prepared for the outside world.

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