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'The hardest thing we can do as women is say we can't cope'

Just a few days before the national lockdown in March 2020 Helen Thorn鈥檚 life imploded. The comedian, who you might know her as half of the Scummy Mummies duo, found out her husband had been unfaithful.

She tells us about her new book, Get Divorced, Be Happy, and how she navigated the heartbreak, divorce and single parenthood with home-schooling, and how it was her friends that helped her the most.

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