Updated: 14:04, 27 May 2021
MRS Brown's Boys star Eilish O'Carroll has opened up about having internalised homophobia before coming out and her "long journey" to accepting herself.
The actress, who plays Winnie McGoogan on the hit RTE comedy, realised she was gay during her marriage to her second husband in her 40s.
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Eilish plays Winnie McGoogan in Mrs Brown's Boys
The Dublin native admitted the decision to come out wasn't one take lightly as it turned her world "upside down".
She said: "It's not a decision you take lightly.
"You don't walk hand in hand into the sunset with the person that you have fallen in love with because what you're carrying is guilt, shame, the pain you have caused the very people you love.. your children, your husband, your family.