I got tired of feeling like Dracula. I wanted to see some daylight, and not just at six o’clock in the morning.
I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.
I’ll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi’s rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.
I’m not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.
The first time I went to Johnny Depp’s house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn’t really know what that entailed.
It is quite amazing what I didn’t feel after a while. I didn’t really want to feel things.
I can do a good roast with my eyes closed. I’m amazing with gravy. That’s my speciality even other people ask me to do gravy at their house. I’m very proud of my gravy.
People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish ‘featureless suburb’ of Croydon.
I’m not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I’ve never been to design school. I can’t sketch. I can’t cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.
My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She’ll say, ‘No, Mummy, you can’t wear that.’ She’s very good. I do trust her instinct.
There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.
You can be a pretty face, but if you’re not a nice person, it just doesn’t work. I’m not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I’m all right. If you’re a nice person, it definitely helps.
I am so romantic about Gypsies. They’re not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it’s easy to be chewed up and spat out. You’ve got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.
I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
My favourite flowers are English country roses – I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.