Phoebe Waller-Bridge has said that she regrets not protecting her family better from the effects of Fleabag‘s success, particularly the assumptions people made that she’d drawn from real life in writing the show.
In reality, Waller-Bridge has an excellent relationship with her elder sister, Isobel, while her mother Theresa is still alive.
“They were being asked all the questions about the show… basically, there was just a communication breakdown with my family.”
“And I was essentially just so far away from everybody and in a different timezone doing the play.”