- Birth nameClare Rita Mary Maguire
- Clare Maguire is known for Waterloo Road (2006), Stranger Things Have Happened (2016) and On Track with SEAT (2011).
- She is of Irish descent.
- One day I'd like to move back to Birmingham - it has real heart and soul. When the music comes out of this city it's good. It's really good. As much as London tries to change me, it never really will. I've come back stronger than ever and I am now so proud to be who I am and to have come from Birmingham.
- It's important for me to be open, I have to be honest. I can't function any other way. As I was living in such a way for so many years where I couldn't say anything out of fear of upsetting or hurting anyone, I just have to not care about that and put my mental health first. With that, it means I have to be honest. I can sense that some people find it shocking but I only realised how extreme the situation was until I got talking to people about it. Even after being told I had two weeks to live.
- I really didn't want to, but in the end I went to see my GP. And she gave me three weeks to live if I carried on drinking like I was. I agreed to go into rehab at a place in North London. I'd only been there a week when a nurse came in crying. She'd previously looked after Amy Winehouse for three months and had just learned Amy had died. When I was drinking, I didn't realise Amy was in trouble but her death was a wake-up call - I've now been four years sober.
- Sometimes people think that I don't like that record but I really do. What I'm unsure about is the situation I was in at the time. When I listen to Light After Dark, I can hear who I was which I think there is something really great about. Clearly it's a person who was really struggling in the studio, making a big pop record. You can really hear that behind it all is someone who's sad. I think the bad response I got from the industry towards the album is why people think I don't like it. It's a bit like what happened with Jessie J. It was all about the 'Sound Of...' poll and how she felt that, even though the feedback from people was good, the industry hammered in on her. Like how there was pressure from the industry on me for coming at number five. I did loads of interviews with Jessie around that time and she was just a natural born pop-star, totally ready for it. I wasn't at that level and couldn't handle it.
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