After the 2016 Orlando shootings Maggie Smith's poem, Good Bones, brought her overnight fame but led to the end of her relationship. She tells Nick Duerden how she's built a new life and career - as a divorce whisperer
After the 2016 Orlando shootings Maggie Smith’s poem, Good Bones, brought her overnight fame but led to the end of her relationship. She tells Nick Duerden how she’s built a new life and career – as a divorce whispererSeptember 4, 2023 6:00 am
. It spoke with a piercing eloquence about the grim realities of living in an imperfect world but how, with a little collective effort, we might all yet “make this place beautiful”. The poem was widely shared across social media, and quoted on prime-time US television programme“It was all incredibly strange,” Smith says now on Zoom from her home.
Previously, theirs had been a fairly traditional setup. They’d been together two decades, and she says, “once we had children, I very willingly took on all the classic mothering stuff, and was happy to leave the rest to him. My parents had had the traditional setup – dad going out to work while my mom did most of the caregiving – and so I guess it felt natural for me to do that, too”.
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