Overview
- Speaking on the Postcards From Midlife Podcast, she said she "handled it very badly" when her eldest left home in 2022.
- She described feeling "heartbroken" yet accepted he needed independence, saying parents must give "roots and wings."
- A light domestic anecdote recalled her trying to nudge his music taste from the Rolling Stones to Led Zeppelin.
- She remembered her own university drop-off and admitted she cried despite promising herself she would be brave.
- In a prior Grazia interview, she called "them leaving" the hardest part of parenting and said she has introduced a new rule for future TV projects.