Page 226 - Katherine Ryan press pack

Ryan also shares her rather unorthodox, but seemingly effective,
method of dealing with bullying. She says that she was the only one

who actually believed that the bullies were really just jealous of their

targets, and she took that message to heart; when bullies used to
throw paper at her head in the fourth grade, Ryan would just sign it,

and ask who she should make the autograph out to.

Ryan then pivots her attention to her daughter’s outlook on life,

bullying and her parents’ relationship. Now, Ryan says that she always

has to be careful not to say a bad word about her daughter’s father, no
matter what she might actually think of him, so when her daughter

asks questions about what Ryan thinks of him, she doesn’t say he has

a gambling problem; instead, he has a “wealth management strategy.”

Ryan shares how she and her daughter’s father, in order to

successfully co-parent, have managed to make their daughter think
that both of her parents are desperately in love with each other, but

they both think that the other is too good for them. But even at 9 years

old, Ryan’s daughter is skeptical that her mother thinks her father is

too good for her. She imitates in her daughter’s British accent, “But,
Mummy, you’re on television. He hasn’t even got a microwave. Are

you sure?”

Ryan shares her dislike of her hometown: Sarnia, in Canada. After she

names it, an audience member whoops in the background, and Ryan
just goes, “No.” Ryan’s aversion to her home is evidently so famous

that the town council actually wrote her a letter, asking her to stop

saying she was from Sarnia. Obviously, she got her tendency not to

pull any punches from her hometown.

She tells a story about her ex, who suddenly moved to Japan while
they were dating. He called her about a week after he moved to