Judy Murray Does Not Let Criticism of Strangers Affect Her Anymore
Tennis - Judy Murray says she does not let the comments of strangers affect her anymore, unlike earlier when they did upset her. In an interview with the Sunday Post, Murray says she was recently at a wedding when she was being talked about but the other guests did not know she was there as well. “I was standing with my back to a woman who I realised was talking about me, though she had no idea I was behind her. She was saying, ‘I can’t stand her, she never smiles, she looks so miserable. She’s pushed these kids and I bet they can’t stand her’. So I just turned my shoulder and bumped into her and she was mortified. I just thought, ‘You’ve never met me and you don’t know me at all’.”
Murray says social media has made it very easy for people to criticise others but she has learnt to deal with the same. “When I got my OBE two years ago there were so many comments, nearly all of them from men, saying, ‘What’s she ever done?’ People who knew nothing about me. It would have bothered me enormously when I was young but now I don’t care. It can be harder reading criticism of the boys but you learn how to deal with that too.”
She adds that her appearance on Dancing with the Stars helped change her public persona, something that she is grateful for. "“It changed my life. People saw me in a different light. I could never have imagined the things I’ve done since – presenting a Bafta, being on Catchprase, The Chase. It’s amazing, great fun. I read somewhere that women find their confidence at 52, and I reckon it was the same for me.”
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