I created Fleabag, but from a point of place in my life where I was able to sit and write.”
She added: “I like to think that whatever life I’d lived, wherever I’d been born or brought up, I would still have written if I had been given the encouragement.
Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge has defended her Bafta-winning BBC show against claims that it is just “for posh girls”, arguing that people from many walks of life are able to relate to the anti-heroine.
Sadly for Fleabag fans, the second series of the show was the last, as confirmed by star Sian Clifford in April.