BREAKING through
Straight-talking, self-deprecating, and incredibly frank, Julia Morris is the kind of celebrity that Australia needs way more of.
Armed with a wicked sense of humour – and an infectious cackle to go with it – she has spent the last 30 years making us laugh, whether it’s on the stage as a stand-up comedian, or on our TV screens via a string of top-rating shows. All the while, she’s a wife and mother to two young girls so to call her life ‘busy’ would be an understatement.
Over the past 12 months in particular, a succession of high energy, prime-time shows – including I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, Blind Date, and Sunday Night Takeaway – left the 51-year-old feeling exhausted and frazzled. Proving that age-old maxim ‘something has got to give’, in Julia’s case it was her health.
“I’ve definitely spoken about burnout before,” she tells , “but I don’t think I had actually experienced it until we finished shooting last year. Then I was like: ‘Oh is burnout.’ I asked my husband Dan and my lovely psychologist: ‘Am I depressed?’ I didn’t understand what was happening.
