Janet St Porter, Last Nights Tv, Celebs

[trt]

Home Secrets...
I'm not a fan of hers at all, but her remarks about her Mother & younger Sister was shameful.

I think most people make remarks about their Parents & siblings, but its said in a funny way, and you know they don't mean it seriously, some do though.

Last night she slagged her Mother & Father off a few times, and said she wished she had never had a younger Sister, because she wanted all the attention herself.

I was waiting for the punch-line like, ''but I loved them dearly etc.
What a cow.

[chelle7272]

Maybe they edited that bit out.....

[ladybirder]

That's her modus operandi trt.

[Robinia]

I think we need to know all the fine details to understand why but JSP has never kept her dislike of her parents a secret, her mother in particular. Apparently her mother told Janet she wasn't a likeable child and probably favoured her sister. When Janet was abused as a child she told her mother who refused to believe her.

[Mamyalynne]

She has never pulled any punches when discussing her family check out her memoir "Baggage my Childhood".

You can see her remarks as cruel or you can view them as honest - either way it's who she is.

[Lie-in King]

Older children have resented younger siblings since time immemorial. I didn't see the programme this was on so I haven't the context to judge, but all she's done is say out loud what millions of people have thought about their own families.

[dunnitall]

Must admit I agree trt, I've never liked her and last nights programme (viewed because OH wanted to watch) has summed up my thoughts as to what type of person she is. Maybe her mother didn't like her because she truly was a horrible child, can't believe how she must have treated her sister.

[Baldric]

Maybe something relevant here

http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/680537/Janet-Street-Porter-abuse-Loose-Women

[saintpeter48]

I'd like to hear the other side of the story, told by her mum and sister!

[dunnitall]

Me too SP48.

[Mamyalynne]

Her Mother is deceased, don't know about her sister.

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/columnists/janet-street-porter/editor-at-large-ignored-and-neglected-why-did-my-sister-have-to-die-like-this-424922.html

[Mamyalynne]

She's quite brutally honest about how nasty she was to her sister - I think when interviews show us snippets and not the whole picture it's easy to miss the whole back story.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2307168/Why-DO-women-sisters.html

[MallyJ]

Some people have foul and damaging parents who ignore pleas for help..this has been their life experience and they have every right to say it as they see and feel it. Why would you say that you loved someone dearly if you did not and if they had damaged you as a child and had a very detrimental effect on you and your ability to live your life? I think she is brave...there are quite a few dreadful parents out there ... from all sorts of backgrounds themselves...most of whom should never have had children. Larkin (I think) got it right with'they muck you up your parents , they don't mean to but they do'

[saintpeter48]

Her mum and sister might say that she was a blooming nightmare as a child, we've all known one or two of those, i've got one in my family on my ex wifes side, wife sister was a horrible child and turned into an even worse adult, in her 70s now and has had no contact in 30 odd years with any of her 2 sisters, recently deceased mother in her 90s and still alive dad, also in his 90s. Her name was not mentioned at her mums funeral, of which she didn't turn up for, its like she never existed. No doubt she has a different story to tell but her sisters and all their children, grandchildren etc all get on very well and are very close, she has missed out on so much, its a shame, she only lives minutes away, has been married for 50 years, one son who has no contact with any of the family. I might add that her husband was/is a horrible man, thought he was better than the rest of the family, used to look down on me 40 odd years ago because I had long hair, which in the 1970s was quite normal, there was only a couple of years between us but like chalk and cheese,he was unfriendly and quite unapproachable, she seems to have turned into him!