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Denise has had an amazing career so far as she's starred in Star Wards show Andor, as well as theatre shows like People, Places and Things.Read more:Late Late Show viewers can't stop laughing at one part of Lord of the Dance performance
"Thankfully I wasn't someone who slept on the streets all the time," she said. "I am a product of grooming and abuse when I was 14. The thing about grooming is it tells the child things, and it splits you off from yourself.However, it was acting that really helped her get through the bad times and get clean and sober.
"The other stuff, the Star Wars and the films and all this stuff, is the icing, sugar, sweet. I cannot believe that this is where I am sitting ... Because it's not just about the sugar, it's about what it took.""I've been clean and sober for 16 years, but it helped me in that time," she explained. "That girl needed all the medicine she could get."
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