Hannah Waddingham at the TV Baftas earlier this month Scott Garfitt via Getty Images Hannah Waddingham opened up the “relentless mummy guilt” she feels “daily” during an interview on Drew Barrymore ’s talk show. The Ted Lasso star paid a visit to The Drew Barrymore Show earlier this week, where the host asked her how she “handles” working and being a parent. Advertisement “Part of your brain’s going, ‘I still need what I call a slither of me time’, but you feel guilty about doing anything else,” Hannah admitted.
“I always say, my ‘slither of me time’ is when I get out of a car, I walk up my garden path, and that’s my slither of me time, and then I go into the house and I’m mummy.” The British actor – who has a nine-year-old daughter – went on to reveal she and her child share a personal “mantra” for when her work takes her far from home. “I always say to her, ‘are you cool with me going here and there or whatever?’,” Hannah explained.
“And we have a mantra that I’ve always taught her. Advertisement “I say, ‘what does mummy always do?’, and she goes, ‘mummy always comes back’.” “So we’re very much a little team,” she added.
Hannah revealed earlier this year that her daughter had recently moved her to tears with a “beautiful” comment about her work. “She’s eight years old and she said, ‘mummy, we were talking at school about who inspires us, and I said Harry Styles and you’,” she told Michel.