{"id":203767,"date":"2025-10-16T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/203767\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:20:08","slug":"mammy-banter-i-make-people-laugh-but-i-couldnt-make-myself-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/203767\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammy Banter: ‘I make people laugh but I couldn’t make myself smile’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It was that debilitating stage where I couldn’t function,” she told BBC Radio Ulster’s Good Morning Ulster<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The only thing she could do was “hide it from [her] children”, she said, adding that she would take them to school and get back into bed until it was time to pick them up.<\/p>\n

She got to the stage where she “didn’t want to do anything”.<\/p>\n

“I checked out completely of social media, of any career in comedy, I wasn’t being social or seeing friends,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I was literally just getting by day by day.”<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Ms Terry shared a video on social media explaining what had been happening.<\/p>\n

She said she had planned to start posting more consistently ahead of her upcoming 2026 tour – but she wanted to be honest first.<\/p>\n

“I hope nobody was looking at my social media going ‘oh my god I wish I could be where she is’ because they had no idea I was at the depths of depression and that’s what’s so dangerous about social media.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“It was that debilitating stage where I couldn’t function,” she told BBC Radio Ulster’s Good Morning Ulster. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-203767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}