内容摘要："I'm grateful to have good family around me that dealt with that, because I probably wasn't a great person to be around sometimes.

"I'm grateful to have good family around me that dealt with that, because I probably wasn't a great person to be around sometimes.

She said those participating in "mass disorder" should expect "severe" sentences, adding "each individual act enflames and encourages others to behave in a similar fashion".Judge Scott said the actions of three men were "disgraceful" and "deplorable".

She said the trio would serve 40% of their sentence before being released on licence.Former theatre professionals and actors who stepped away from the stage after lockdown have been reflecting on how their lives have changed five years on.Theatres in the West End and around the UK closed down shows on 16 March 2020, a week before the first national lockdown - a day that has

Lily Cooper, 32, from Hackney, was an actor who also worked front of house at London's Almeida Theatre, and was waiting to hear back from a "dream" theatre audition.Ms Cooper, who now works in a children's hospital, said she had had an "out of body experience" because of the "horrifying realisation" she might never act again, adding: "It was really, really terrible."

Acting had been so "intrinsic" to her identity since she was about 11 years old she struggled when the industry shut down, she said.

"We didn't know at that point if theatres would ever return," she said. "I asked myself 'Who am I without this?'"Actor and disability-rights activist Liz Carr, who made

, also opposes the legislation."Some of us have very real fears based on our lived experience and based on what has happened in other countries where it's legal," she wrote on X.

Dr Gordon Macdonald, from campaign group Care Not Killing, said the bill ignores the wider "deep-seated problems in the UK's broken and patchy palliative care system".Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy, the first permanent wheelchair user to be elected to Holyrood, said it could become "easier to access help to die than help to live".