{"id":466883,"date":"2026-05-25T23:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/466883\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:24:10","slug":"julie-andrews-appears-in-rare-video-for-parkinsons-disease-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/466883\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Andrews Appears in Rare Video for Parkinson&#8217;s Disease Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I would go completely mad if I didn&#8217;t have some lovely thing to work on,&#8221; she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jeffconway\/2023\/09\/12\/julie-andrews-opens-up-about-reviving-her-voice-through-the-magic-of-childrens-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Forbes<\/a> in 2023. &#8220;I think really, since I had a bad surgery on my throat, I&#8217;ve just turned to this with Emma and it&#8217;s been such a joy. It has been very refreshing for me and reviving in a way, because of course, it was a very sad event.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, she knows how lucky she is to thrive in such a competitive industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve just been so really lucky in my career that the opportunities, the mentors\u2014somehow being somewhere at the right moment,&#8221; Julie added. &#8220;None of it was really planned\u2014and so, things don&#8217;t just land on your desk every second but surprises do, and I just think nobody has been more fortunate than I&#8217;ve been.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For a look at Julie&#8217;s life over the years, keep reading.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I would go completely mad if I didn&#8217;t have some lovely thing to work on,&#8221; she told Forbes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-466883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}