Charlotte Church recalls meeting David Bowie as a youngster and saying she would have “talked the hind legs off a donkey” as an adult.
The 37-year-old Welsh singer said her mother had her pose with the musician even though she wasn’t a fan.
Church, a “slightly awkward” 14-year-old, met several celebrities “on receive.”
After recording “bits and bobs” on TV, the 12-year-old’s first CD, Voice Of An Angel, altered her family’s lives.
Church talked about her profession and meeting celebrities and international leaders on Rob Brydon’s Brydon & podcast.
I met David Bowie at the 2000 MTV Music Awards in New York when I was 14. “I gave Eminem an award,” she added.
I and my mother a huge Bowie fan did it.
I’m now a huge Bowie admirer. He was backstage conversing.
“My mum tapped him on the shoulder and said, ‘Oh, can you have a photo with my daughter?’ “Yeah, sure,” he said. He took a shot with me on my mother’s disposable camera.”
She said, “He was just lovely, again, because I was a kid. I would have talked the hind legs off a donkey to him as an adult meeting all these people.
I would have been so intrigued… I took it all in as a bit uncomfortable adolescent going through a lot.
I was quite receptive. I attempted to absorb everything.”
Church also talked about her “fairytale” career including meeting Muhammad Ali, Beyonce, and Bill Clinton.
She added Mr. Clinton and Hillary were “immensely skilful at really making you feel like they actually wanted to meet you”.
“They genuinely cared,” she added. I’ve met many royals, politicians, and international leaders that aren’t.
“They’re uninterested. They don’t want to be there or pretend.
Church claimed she was “a very self-aware person” and aware of how she was seen throughout her life.
“I became famous at a particularly toxic time for women and working class women,” she remarked.
“Growing up in that really toxic culture, which (was) very much based around a very narrow view of what women could be in society and what success looked like for women.”
She said, “I don’t know.”
“I think it’s a bit more insidious now, that it’s just sort of more covert.”
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