Brenda Blethyn has told how she ended up buying a bed after she sat on it for a rest and nodded off.
The Vera actress said she was so exhausted after a night of filming that a shopping trip ended with her snuggled up asleep on a plush bed in London department store Harrods.
When she woke up, she thought she had better buy it.
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Brenda, 71, told the Radio Times: “I was shopping in London a while back and I was so tired – I’d been working all night – that I tried to get an appointment in an opticians, just so I could sit down, as all the cafes were full.
“I couldn’t, so I went into Harrods furniture department and thought, ‘Oh, I’ll have a lie on a bed.’
“It was so comfortable I nodded off – and then bought it.”
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Brenda, who has been acting since the 70s, also opened up about how she copes with any negative response to her work.
“You have to take it all with a pinch of salt, even the good reviews,” she said.
“The knocks you get after you’ve slogged your heart out and then it gets slaughtered in the press…”