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‘How can a teenage brain handle being pilloried in the press? It can’t. No wonder I did a lot of drugs and drank a lot’

Amanda de Cadenet, Word presenter turned activist and photographer, on tabloids, teenage fame and why she wouldn’t be alive if she’d stayed in the UK

Amanda de Cadenet launched The Conversation in 2012, a TV talkshow that became a podcast, on which she interviewed well-known women. Photograph: Amy Lombard/New York Times
Amanda de Cadenet launched The Conversation in 2012, a TV talkshow that became a podcast, on which she interviewed well-known women. Photograph: Amy Lombard/New York Times
Hadley Freeman
Fri Aug 26 2022 - 05:00