MY Mad Fat Diary star Sharon Rooney has spoken of her relief at being accepted
for who she is by the television industry.
She plays 16-year-old Rae Earl, as she struggles to adjust to life with her
friends after a summer spent inside a psychiatric hospital.
Sharon, 24, said: “It was just so good to know I could audition for
something and not have to change. I could audition as I am – how I look like.”
And talking about the new 90s set E4 show, Sharon added: “It’s just so
good and so refreshing and so different to anything I’d ever seen before.”
Sharon also hopes that the series will help teens who are struggling with
mental health issues.
She said: “For me, I think it’s about time that it was brought into the
mainstream.
“Because there’s such a big taboo about it, no one speaks about it. How
can you expect a teenager to admit that they’re struggling if no-one talks
about it?
“We talk about everything else that’s supposed to be taboo – there’s
loads of programmes about sexually transmitted diseases and that kind of
stuff… this is just as important.
“I think it’s good that it is being brought to people’s attention.”
My Mad Fat Diary begins on Monday, January 14 at 10pm on E4.