Working as supporting actress helped me to discover my comedian side used to fight with success stress and anxiety after an abusive relationship.

Laura Bernardeschi
3 min readJul 6, 2023

In my 50s i had to think how to recreate myself in a foreign country far from my Italian family living in a huge city like London trying no to be negative as an empty glass , angry and sick of the life .

But it was surprising to discover the strength of my mind and body when I needed them more .

After a few days spent in my new loft of London , I put down a list of projects and goals i had to reach in less than six months .

I was not sure of that but i tried my best .

After my normal job in the capital , i spent hours until late in the night to paint abstract artworks to relieve my stress and looking for a new city to live slightly smaller than London where i could meet more friends and have an easier life .

But i needed to meet also positive people after three years spent with a man shouting to me every time he could .

So i decided to concentrate myself also with another passion i discovered to have in my previous years in London.

Acting !

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I decided to rejoin casting agencies , change the colour of my hair , renew my wardrobe and add again make up on my face .

I organised a couple of photoshoots with friends whith the passion of photography to renew my portfolio .

As soon as i sent these pics to the agencies, they started to call me for films and commercials in the capital . I was also published on a few magazines for my articles .

It was surprising because the nasty ex for three years had taken all my confidence , sensuality and beauty repeating quite often I was too old to be a serious artist and enjoy the life.

Some problems with my memory .

My memory unfortunately had been damaged for all the stress connected to the emotional abuses and when i tried an experience in a theatre of Bristol , I had to give up because i could not remember the words .

But i did not despair and carried on to work as supporting actress and lately doing videos for Tiktok or Youtube has helped me to find my comedian side .

Now my friends call me sometimes rubber face for the ability to do funny faces , my sense of humour and jokes.

I like making people laugh and my comic side defeated for ever the negativity of a life based on stress and anxiety.

When i moved from Bristol to Newcastle upon tyne i was not sure there were acting projects around but instead the city keeps me incredibly busy .

Thanks for reading

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Laura Bernardeschi

Actress, life model , blogger and writer , originally from italy but living in Uk since 2011 .She lives for art