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Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, has given a powerful interview to People magazine about her incredible journey over the past year. Many will remember that Sarah has been at the center of countless scandals and turned to many interviewers like Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Phil and 60 Minutes Australia for help.
Now she seems to have been able to help herself! Check out what she said...
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Sarah Ferguson explained "It's like I've gotten out of my own way. I've really become Sarah. The Duchess is there. Good old Fergie's there too. But Sarah is authentically present."
The last few times she gave major interviews were after her big scandals like offering an undercover reporter access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew for £500,000 in 2010. She explained, "When you have a sense of humor and you're a redhead, everyone takes you for a big hurricane. But sometimes, you don't always want to be the storm."
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She also spoke about Prince Andrew, saying "Whatever challenges he has, I will stand firm to the co-parenters that we are together... I believe that he's a kind, good man, and he's been a fabulous father to the girls."
The pair are now grandparents to both August Philip Hawke and soon to Princess Beatrice's child-to-be.
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Sarah took part in the television series Who Do You Think You Are? to find out about her ancestors and learned quite a bit about her ancestor Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott. She then decided to write a novel about Lady Margaret and learned, "In researching her, I found out more about my own DNA, and I found that resilience and courage and sense of hope and optimism. I am a full-blown Celtic redhead, and that comes with a great enthusiasm for life, great spontaneity, and also - you just fight on."
It is this intense persona that she feels inside her that clashes with her desire for calmness. "I think Her Heart for a Compasswas an extraordinarily challenging time for me because each line and each chapter, and each just well each line each Sentance each paragraph each chapter was in search of my own heart."
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The former member of the British royal family was previously very tentative about speaking publicly after all of her past interview mishaps or outbursts. She detailed her "extraordinary fear of getting it wrong or putting my head above the parapet only to be hit down."
But now that has all changed "I am in present with the room with you. And I feel really happy about it because I don't feel frightened that I am going off script or that I need a publicist in the room to check I'm okay or that I need to have a lawyer present. I will answer you with authentic truth with how my heart feels and that is really freeing."
Working on her novel Her Heart for a Compass has clearly helped heal so many wounds the Duchess has taken on! The story follows her ancestor, who like her, is a free-spirited young lady trying to find her own way and traverse the "confines of polite society" in Scotland and Ireland.
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Sarah Ferguson is a changed woman! The Duchess of York is opening up about how much she has grown during the pandemic and how she has "really become Sarah."
Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie's mother talked to People about how the controversial and scandal-ridden Duchess has figured out how to get "out of my own way."