Andrea Corr tells Ryan Tubridy about devastating bullying trauma - 'It never actually left me'
The Corrs singer joins Ryan Tubridy this week on The Bookshelf with Ryan Tubridy.
The Corrs singer Andrea Corr has opened up about being bullied – and how she never got over being taunted.
The Co Louth native, from Dundalk, joins Ryan Tubridy this week on The Bookshelf with Ryan Tubridy, where she talks through the prism of three books – her favourite childhood book, the book that made her cry and the book that changed her life, Andrea charts her life from a young ‘giddy girl’, losing her parents, the profound sadness she felt and her belief she will see them again and her struggle to conceive.
CS Lewis’ Silver Chair from the Narnia series is a book she has visceral memories of reading, where the children are bullied at school and escape to Narnia.
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It’s something that a lot of children experience and is something she went through as a child telling Ryan: “I had a happy childhood, I think I got to 12 without ever having that worry ache that pain in your gut.
“As you get older you have different problems with people, or friends. Like everybody I had a bit of a hard time. There was a small moment when that ache came, girls made up something to stop me going somewhere and that people were calling me names. What I was being called was harsh and made me ashamed but it was not true…but I believed it so fully that it never actually left me.
“But I am not sitting here crying going poor me. I see my kids as much stronger than me, particularly my daughter who would have none of this crap I took! She doesn’t have my weaknesses, I don’t worry about that ache for her.”
Andrea also talks about her faith and how she prayed to Little Flower, St. Therese of Lisieux, when she experienced difficulties getting pregnant.
“My situation was not good. I had five miscarriages, and it didn’t look good that I would be able to hold my own baby. It was almost miraculous how my problems disappeared.
“I believe in prayer and faith and trust handing it over. I trust what’s best will happen for me,” she added.
The interview is available now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and all major audio platforms and to watch on YouTube.
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