Kathy Burke has spoken of the misery she endured when she went through the menopause.
She has also talked about why she never had children.
The actress, 55, said: “The menopause is probably the biggest b*****d amongst the female anatomy. Your hormones go apesh**.”
She added: “Actually what happened was I became quite isolated because I didn’t want to go anywhere because I hated being a woman during my menopause. I was like ‘why am I a woman?’. I couldn’t bear it.”
Kathy, who has never married, lays her life bare in the second part of her new Channel 4 documentary series All Woman.
She said: “I went through moody broody... well, I met one person and I thought ‘if I am going to have a child with anybody it is going to be with this guy’.
“Anyway it didn’t happen because he had a girlfriend and I tried not to sleep with people if they had girlfriends.
"It was also really telling because I obviously didn’t want it desperately because I would have made it happen.
“I love stay-at-home dads. I think that is so brilliant. “If I knew in my 20s you could... meet someone and have kids and he would be happy to be the one the bringing up the children maybe I would have done it.
“But back when I was in my 20s, it was sort of unheard of. I look back and I have no regrets even though I love the babies.”
She added: “I have no regrets about not having my own now.
“It can be seen as being quite selfish, but I’m very happy to be selfish. It is my life and that is what I chose to do with it.”
In the episode of the series on Tuesday night at 10pm, she also meets a high flying financial analyst aged in her mid-30s who has decided to freeze her eggs.
The show follows the woman through the procedure.
Kathy’s numerous comedy programmes include French and Saunders, Absolutely Fabulous, and Have I Got News For You.
She also formed a TV and movie double act with Harry Enfield as Kevin and Perry the teenagers.
* Kathy Burke’s All Woman is on Channel 4 on Tuesday at 10pm.
