Gerry Ryan's daughter Lottie has revealed she was afraid of being judged when she first started out in radio.
The 2FM star said she didn't want to be tied to her famous father throughout her career.
She told Georgie Crawford on The Good Glow podcast: “I think everybody wanted to say: “oh, but aren’t those shoes a bit big to fill?
"I was like, I’m not trying to fill anybody else’s shoes, I am not my dad. Let me be me, let me just have my own shoes.
“I felt as if I’d be fighting that battle forever and I just didn’t want to take the battle on.
“So I think for a long time I thought: “life is too short, I‘m not fighting battles, I’m not explaining myself to people for the rest of my life, I’m not justifying what I want to do and what makes me happy.
“Then things changed, I stopped caring.”
Lottie added that she has learned to ignore critics and judgement voices as her career has gone on.
She continued: "I was so afraid of judgement. Looking back, I just wish I hadn’t cared so much about what other people thought and I just tried so hard to stay away.”
