Recent news reports say that Hollywood movie star, Catherine Zeta-Jones, is suffering from Bi-Polar Disorder (allegedly the 'number 2' variety, which is less 'pronounced').
No doubt she's had a lot to contend with. Her husband's illness must have taken it's toll on her. Not to mention looking after her two kids, keeping up with her glittering career and the various homes the couple own throughout the globe.
Maybe it makes us ordinary folk a little bit smug to know that these kinds of illnesses are no respecter of persons, wealth or class. We can find ourselves thinking that with all that money, fame and superstar lifestyle, there is no immunity from the kind of trials lesser mortals experience.
Part of me thinks that. But then part of me feels a little bit of sympathy for the Mrs Michael Douglas. Maybe if she'd stayed in the Gower (a lovely part of Wales); and married a Welsh rugby player like, say, Charlotte Church, everything would have been lovely. Or maybe not.
Still, there's always a silver lining to these things. Stephen Fry's very public battle with Depression seems to have given a whole new dimension to his career. Maybe Miss Zeta-Jones will claim a different piece of the limelight now. All the images I found on Google show her looking lovely as usual. There are none of her falling out of a 'rehab' clinic or coming out of club in a drunken or drugged state; or showing their underwear (unless in very tasteful poses). Witness celebrity 'sufferers' of other conditions, who have often been 'papped' in such compromising situations. Maybe the ever-tasteful, serene Catherine is a prime candidate to front a new campaign for this nasty illness. Certainly this timely reporting makes sure that the other Catherine doesn't get all the attention over Easter.
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