Sheridan Smith is Britain’s most captivating actress and performer. Multiple awards and accolades across a career spanning two decades include a BAFTA and two Olivier awards, and top-ten bestselling recording. She may be sprinkled with stardust, but it’s courage, grit and graft that underpins her life story.
While audiences cheered, critics raved, ratings soared and theatres sold out, for Sheridan, however, all this success and attention brought feelings of imposter syndrome, struggles with her mental health and panic attacks. As she fought to cope, every vulnerability was scrutinised under the glare of the public eye, adding impossible pressure to an already difficult time for her and her family.
Now in her first memoir, Honestly, Sheridan writes very personally and with powerful immediacy about how she faced her demons down, sought help and fought hard for her recovery.
Happily settled with her partner and their son Billy, she is ready to share her journey: from growing up in Lincolnshire and those early talent competitions, her rise to fame on screen and stage, and her life off it. Packed with showbiz adventure, funny and warm, but dark times and heartbreak too.
This is the real Sheridan Smith, the incredible woman behind that prodigious talent.
Sheridan Smith says: ‘I never thought myself old enough to write an autobiography, but when I sat down to think about it I realised, in my 40th year, there was a story to tell. Speaking with friends and family they reminded me of all the stories over the years ... then all of a sudden I realised I had a book. Having had a son last year I wanted to document my story for him, so this is my story, in my words.’