...and why she might have given her memoirs the wrong title

Miranda Hart has been getting a lot of headlines this week for her memoir, revealing the illness that left her housebound and that she had finally found love and got married at 51.

But she wonders if she might have given it the wrong title…

Speaking on the Graham Norton Show that will air tonight, she jokes: ‘Boris Johnson’s book is out and here’s my thinking… Mine’s called, I Haven't Been Entirely Honest with You and his is called Unleashed.  We definitely need to swap.’

She shares the talk-show couch with Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Kevin Kline, Ncuti Gatwa, Rag 'n' Bone Man.

And Gomez becomes emotional as Hart reveals the singer and actress’s 2022 film My Mind and Me, about her struggles with physical and mental health following her diagnosis with lupus and bipolar disorder, was an inspiration for her book.

‘I watched Selina’s documentary and it gave me the courage to be vulnerable and share my feelings about my disease.  It kept me writing,’ Hart says.

‘The book is not just about illness; it is about how I learnt to live well and free with joy and meaning despite my circumstances.  I now feel I can be in the world as me.  I feel fully free, if not fully recovered.’

Talking about her new husband, she says: ‘I had my diagnosis during the pandemic, and it was a very lonely time, so I decided I didn’t want to be alone any more, so I put out this little prayer with about one per cent of hope, but I met someone and got married in July.’

And on the wedding itself, she reveals: ‘It was a very small gathering and for no reason at all it was Hawaiian themed with inflatable flamingos, coconut bowling and a steel band.’

• The Graham Norton Show in on BBC One and iPlayer from 10.40pm tonight.

Published: 11 Oct 2024