“Growing up, this isn’t the life I expected at all,” says 41-year-old Lucy who had always imagined motherhood arriving in a more traditional order – a partner, a wedding, then children.
Instead, her journey to becoming a mother began with IVF and donor sperm, a choice she made during the pandemic after she realised how much she missed seeing her sister’s and friend’s children.
She jokingly told her parents that she could have a child on her own and recalls: “I expected them to laugh it off but they said I should and got excited about it.
In her autobiography A Lonely Life, Bette Davis remembers making All About Eve with none of the rancour or drama that should provide all the dirt an essayist would look for when writing about the film. Her part was supposed to go to someone else, but when Claudette Colbert injured her back while filming Three Came Home, director Joseph L. Mankiewicz had producer Darryl F. Zanuck call Davis. “I can think of no project that from the outset was as rewarding from the first day to the last,” 
