Suzy Eddie Izzard has revealed that she would like to have kids one day as she opened up about her mother’s tragic death when she was a child.
The stand-up comedian, actor and activist, 64, was speaking on the latest episode of the ADHD! No You’re Not podcast with comedian Paul Whitehouse and his wife Dr Mine Conkbayir.
During the chat Suzy said she would like to have children but said despite having no close family she ‘doesn’t feel grief’ much anymore.
Her mother Dorothy died in March 1968 when Suzy was six years old. She was a nurse and midwife who passed away from cancer.
In the podcast chat Mine said to her: ‘Of course you’re gonna be impacted by your mom’s passing forever. You know, we just move with the grief and it becomes part of us one way. But yeah. Do you feel like, so you don’t have your own children do you or family…?’
Suzy replied: ‘No, I would, I would like to have them but umm…’
Mine then asked: ‘Do you think it’s exacerbated that feeling, that loss, the grief because you don’t have that immediate family of your own?’
Suzy Eddie Izzard has revealed that she would like to have kids one day as she opened up about her mother’s tragic death when she was a child
Suzy said she would like to have children but said despite having no close family she ‘doesn’t feel grief’ much anymore
The stand-up comedian, actor and activist, 64, was speaking on the latest episode of the ADHD ! No You’re Not podcast with comedian Paul Whitehouse and his wife Dr Mine Conkbayir
Suzy replied saying: ‘No, I don’t think that is it. I think I’ve dealt with the grief. I stopped crying at 11. As a survival thing in boarding school. And then I realized at 19 that I was dead inside.
‘So I ripped that back open. I ripped off the scar tissue that built. Yeah, because I thought a cat run over in the street and I thought, I don’t feel anything.
‘I thought, oh, I am dead inside. And I think that’s what boarding schools do for kids. They make them dead inside.’
Suzy has previously spoken about how she would be ‘very happy to have children’ and confessed she’s open to falling in love again with a woman.
She previously said that she has always fancied women over men and her last known relationship was with singer Sarah Townsend.
Izzard spoke to Gyles Brandreth on the Rosebud podcast and said: ‘I would be very happy to have children. But at the moment it’s not there. Never say never.’
She added: ‘I am trans, but I fancy women, I’ve always fancied women, never fancied boys or men, it just doesn’t work for me.’
While discussing her love life and hopes for the future, Eddie admitted that she is not actively looking for love right now because she is ‘happy’ in her own company.
She revealed: ‘I’m not going to go into lots of relationships. It is tricky – having relationships if you’re a trans person that’s going to be tricky, but I’m quite happy with my own company.’
‘I’m very happy in the position that I am at the moment so I’m not looking. If someone comes along and we click very well – then absolutely.’
She continued: ‘But I’m not actively going to discos.
‘I do believe at some point the right person could be there and we could click.’
She also discussed the type of partner she wants in life, by saying: ‘It would need to be an intelligent person, great conversation, good sense of humour, attractive.’
During the chat Suzy said she would like to have children but said despite having no close family she ‘doesn’t feel grief’ much anymore
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She told the Daily Mail’s Richard Eden: ‘I would like to start dating, but it’s complicated with me being a trans woman.’
She added: ‘It’s going to have to be a very confident and strong-minded woman who has a relationship with me.’
Suzy was previously in a long-term relationship with singer, director, and producer Sarah.
The pair met at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1989 through a mutual friend and Sarah also directed the 2009 documentary Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story.
At one point, she was rumoured to be Suzy’s wife from 1999 until they separated in 2002.
The pair reportedly remained good friends even after their separation.
According to previous reports, the entertainer has also dated Susie Church who tragically passed away in 2016.
I’m ADHD! No You’re Not is available on all podcast platforms every Thursday.
