Deirdre O'Kane says her comedy career saved her "many times over", particularly when her husband was sick with cancer.
Thankfully Stephen pulled through and recovered, but it was undoubtedly a tough time for him and his family, and Deirdre was grateful she could find "a release" through stand-up."Obviously, my husband was very sick and that was a very tough time in our lives but I was still going out to tell jokes," she told Tommy Tiernan on his RTE chat show."There were occasionally times when I really didn't want to do it, but I was always grateful when I did.
"Women are always judged much more fiercely on their appearance and even if I was swearing, that is judged more harshly than if a man is.The actress was made to feel she "wasn't as good" as her male counterparts but added, "I don't have that now - that's gone."
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