Funny Girl

If all the actors who felt insecure were to quit, surely the stages would be half-empty! ;-)

People are people. People have meltdowns and bad periods in their lives. Famous people are still people and have meltdowns too, they're just usually heavily managed and shielded from the public eye when it happens, and for some reason this isn't happening here.

That is one HUGE generalisation on people's behaviour right there!

To quote myself from earlier in the thread, I hope she goes back, doesn't miss another one and smashes it out of the park every performance. And makes a statement as to why she missed the performances she did. People might then applaud her work ethic and her classy response to a situation she has so far acquitted herself very badly in.

They should give her a week off and then she can come back refreshed and ready for work. I read on The Sun thag insiders don't think she'll last until the end of May. I think she will last way past then, she's strong. Wonder if she'll be on tonight? If she did leave then they would have to replace her with someone else?

Well there is one actress on tour who has already publicly announced she has cancer, so guessing you are referring to another one?

This is actually confirmed true. You can find articles online where they quote "insiders" that are actually word for word posts from apparently 'in the know' posts from here....

This thread is starting to get a bit viral on the board. I love Sheridan and have been a very long term fan. I hope she gets herself sorted and comes back and shows the knockers just how good she is.

No idea what her management is doing but feel it should be a lot more in terms of protecting here and ensuring she has the right people around her. Noticed reference to Pete Doherty earlier in this thread. Good example there of how his management have ensured he is in a good place for recent Libertines tour and starting today a solo tour. Brought in someone who 'looks after' him 24 hours ensuring nothing or no one gets chance to push back into old habits. Part of this is simply ensuring that the guy knows that he is 'loved' - simple as that.

I've worked with a singer for last 11 years who has been an addict and alcoholic for last 20. Thanks to wife and daughter in recent years he has now been over 2 years clean - knows he is loved and producing some of his best work ever.

When someone is in a bad place the media love it as they know they can go for the kill. I like to think we are better than the media. Yes, we expect performers to rise above the situation, to act professionally and not let the fans down. But none of us are the same. Some are strong and others are much weaker. We're all Beautiful Human Persons though.

This is one of the problems we have with tackling bullying, generally - in schools, in workplaces, on social media. People don't recognise it when it is happening.

Yes, actually, constantly picking on someone with jibes, insinuations and insults *is* bullying. Particularly when it's a group of people targetting an individual. Anyone who has experienced it will know that it's the constant drip, drip, drip of it that wears you down and *makes* you insecure and hyper-sensitive, to the point that you react to things you'd normally be able to ignore or brush off. Any individual instance by any individual person seems trivial to outsiders, but is experienced by the victim as part of an ongoing campaign. It's only when you look at it as a whole that you realise the extent of it.

It's a horrible, horrible thing to experience because you know the people doing it have got inside your head. The press are particularly good at it - they pick, pick, pick away at people until they react, and then gleefully run stories about their reaction.

Did anyone watch the documentary about Amy Winehouse that came out last year? That was particularly effective at demonstrating it - by simply editing together a sequence of all the people making Amy the butt of their jokes at a point in her life when she was extremely vulnerable. It made for extremely uncomfortable viewing. 

No, you're not making light of it, you're just suggesting that the problem is a trivial insecurity rather than a serious health crisis in the family in addition to a press pile-on. Oh, and that she should give up her beloved career. Not light at all, that, in fact it's rather serious to suggest that someone give up the career they've worked towards their entire life because they've missed a couple of shows and said some unwise things on Twitter.

Clearly Sheridan can deal with her normal levels of performer insecurity, which is how she is capable of performing so brilliantly, so frequently, over such a wide range of projects.

Where did you see this?

Thanks, yes I saw this, it came up on twitter a bit after the poster had already announced it here. I didn't know if they heard it elsewhere.