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‘I was sexualised, patronised and ridiculed’: how Charlotte Church survived the tabloids to become an earth mother
Charlotte Church has lived her life in the full glare of publicity, rising from child star to tabloid target. Now, happier and more free than ever, she’s found her feet – and her voice – at her healing retreat in the Welsh valleys
It’s the first thing I do when I set foot on this soil.” It’s a two-hour drive from her home in Barry to The Dreaming, the retreat centre she opened in 2023, a pilgrimage across Bannau Brycheiniog and into the myth-steeped hills of the Elan Valley in Powys, central Wales. Visiting practitioners run workshops: womb yoga, willow weaving, night-sky gazing; retreats for grief, queer people, goddesses and another she’ll be leading with “two other witches”. Based on the speed at which any sniff of a story spreads across gossip columns and sidebars-of-shame, it’s likely to be a consequence of Church’s relative absence from the public eye, rather than a lack of malintent or interest.
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