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Comedian Ruby Wax said she was 'mortified' when Comic Relief 'outed' her mental health struggles in one of their advertisements. The 71-year-old star actress and mental health campaigner has bipolar ...

Ruby Wax will receive an OBE for her services to mental health. The comedian is being honoured after continued campaigning on mental health issues, including raising money for neuroscience research.

Ruby Wax has detailed her “violent” childhood at the hands of her Austrian Jewish parents, who she said “beat her up”. The comedian, 70, reflected on her past during an appearance on Life Stories with ...

There can’t be many – are there any? – comedians who decide to do a tour of psychiatric hospitals to try out their latest material before launching it on the general public. Certainly, Stephen Fry, ...

Having examined depression in her last solo show Losing It, Ruby Wax, the self-proclaimed "poster girl for mental illness", tells us this follow-up is aimed at "the rest of you", ie the ...

Ruby Wax says she laughed in Donald Trump’s face after he told her of his ambitions to be US president, back in 2000. The comedian was subsequently kicked off Trump’s private jet and abandoned on the ...

Ruby Wax has admitted that she found it hard to cope when her TV work dried up. The comedian confessed that her depression made it difficult to work and described starring in reality TV shows as ...