{"id":112813,"date":"2025-10-10T06:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/112813\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T06:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:51:07","slug":"penny-lancaster-opens-up-on-painful-personal-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/112813\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny Lancaster opens up on \u2018painful\u2019 personal struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/penny-lancaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Penny Lancaster<\/a> has opened up on a personal \u201cpainful\u201d struggle in a candid admission about her early life.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/lorraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lorraine<\/a> on Thursday (9 October), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/loose-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Loose Women<\/a> panellist revealed that she was bullied at school \u201cfor all sorts of reasons\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She said that her mum taught her a powerful lesson to try and \u201clook at the other perspective\u201d despite it being \u201cpainful to go through\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTry and look at why the person that&#8217;s doing the bullying is doing it in the first place. There must be something that they&#8217;re dealing with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said that she believes she has carried this lesson throughout her life and believes her past experiences with bullying gave her the \u201ctools to deal with bullies in adulthood, which we all come across\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penny Lancaster has opened up on a personal \u201cpainful\u201d struggle in a candid admission about her early life.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[9,1063,18,117,1831,19,1826,17,5,1828,1827,1829,1830,128,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-112813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-daily-news","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-global-news","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-inkl","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-news-app","18":"tag-news-headlines","19":"tag-news-today","20":"tag-today-news","21":"tag-tv","22":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}