“Bad stories can create good people, and I wanted to protect them from those bad stories so they could live with the good person they'd created without ever worrying about what I had to go through to become that person. I kept those secrets because I needed to . . . and sometimes it's OK to make those kinds of decisions for the sake of your own happiness.”

English theatre actress and singer

Carrie Hope Fletcher is an English theatre actress and singer. She is known for her work in the West End and for a public profile that extends beyond the stage. Her performances have included Éponine and Fantine in Les Misérables, Veronica Sawyer in the original West End production of Heathers: The Musical, and Cinderella in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella. Outside theatre, she has built a large following on social media, including more than half a million YouTube subscribers, and has also written several bestselling novels for children and adults.