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Marisa Mackle

Emma Doran recalls burning her school uniform and being called a 'frigid slapper'

Emma Doran has told how she was called "a frigid slapper" by a young man after spurning his advances.

The comedian made the revelation as she discussed sitting her Leaving Cert days shortly after giving birth.

Emma recalled how she received the insult from a fellow after rejecting his advances as a teenager.

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"But it does actually sum me up," she told Muireann O’ Connell on their joint podcast, And Another Thing.

"I am a frigid slapper,” she quipped.

"Basically the only reason he called me a frigid slapper was because I would kiss him but I didn’t want to go any further."

The Rathfarnham funny woman also admitted burning her books and school uniform after doing her Leaving, shortly after giving birth to daughter, Ella.

"I burned my uniform. It was like a witches’ seance or something. I just did it myself in a steel bin out the back."

Emma added that looking back, she didn’t realise how people around her were affected by her doing the Leaving Cert.

"So when you’re the student, You think, 'I’m in a heap, I’m doing this thing.'

"But you don’t realise the impact it has on everyone around you.

"You couldn’t pay me to study now."

Emma revealed her own daughter went on to achieve 620 points in her Leaving Cert in 2020.

Muireann also spoke about the "trauma" of sitting the Leaving.

She said: "The famine and the Leaving Cert - collective trauma that you’ll never recover from.

"You are up to your neck in stress and anxiety.

"You've got a lot going on in the Leaving Cert year. I was told it doesn’t matter so much, I just stopped studying.

"I should have done so much better. I had no interest in science. I did economics because I liked colouring in graphs with highlighters.

"I wish I’d done a little more work.

She added: "The Leaving Cert does feel like death."

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