I'm Coming Out

#5 Eilish O' Carroll on falling for a woman in her forties and her ten year struggle to accept her sexuality

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Eilish O’ Carroll plays Winne McGoogan on the hugely successful sitcom ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’, which has not only been a big hit in the UK and Ireland but also in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. As part of Mrs Brown’s Boys, she has appeared on a spin-off TV chat show (All around to Mrs Brown’s) and a box-office hit movie (Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie). The show has also won a whole raft of awards including National Television Awards and a Bafta. She is currently in the middle of a UK and Ireland arena tour for a musical version of the show. Eilish herself has toured with her own one woman show entitled ‘Live. Laugh. Love’, which received rave reviews at the Edinburgh Festival in 2016. 

Eilish is an incredible woman and she gave a really candid interview. I met up with her in Dublin and we chatted about;

  • her lack of awareness of homosexuality growing up in holy Catholic Ireland of the 50s and 60s, 
  • how turning 40 and falling for a woman was the catalyst for her coming out process, 
  • how she struggled with her sexuality throughout her 40s, 
  • telling her husband she was in love with a woman, 
  • the misconceptions she held herself about the lesbian lifestyle 
  • coming out to her friends and neighbours 
  • and the bigotry she encountered whilst campaigning for marriage equality in 2015.  

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    Eilish’s website  http://eilishocarroll.com

    Eilish on twitter @eilishocarroll

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