As children, and even as adults, we all tend to tell little white lies in order to get out of things we really don’t want to do.
However, for Graham Norton, these lies lead to bigger lies that saw him unnecessarily on an operating table for a major operation.
The Cork native revealed that he once told a little lie so he could stay home from school one day and it escalated from there.
Speaking about his ordeal on Mel Giedroyc’s show Unforgivable, Graham admitted: ‘When I was seven or eight, I didn’t want to go to school so I started saying “Ow, I’ve got tummy ache”. ‘So my mother said, “Fine, don’t go to school and we will go to the doctor”.’ A classic response from a mother to stop their child from lying.
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