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A thread. Here goes... this is the face of years of domestic abuse and coercive control.
I took this on Christmas Day when he last threatened to turn up at my house. The smile doesn’t meet the eyes but I desperately wanted to keep up with the world, be insta ready or whatevs...
*ACTORS! A public service announcement. Please share. I’m a film/TV/commercials actress with a great agent. I wanted to be transparent about how acting is these days, so I sat down and worked out my strike rate with auditions over the last 6 years. I have been VERY honest… 1/3
A long emosh post that probably no-one will see! 😂
So, a few million years ago I had a record deal. I was signed to Mercury/Universal Records. I was about to release my album and it was pulled. I was gutted and vowed to one day make sure I put it out there. I gave up music soon
Acting in Covid... a thread... A few weeks ago, I asked my agents for a serious ‘chat’. I had submitted numerous self-tapes over lockdown and was feeling depressed as I hadn’t heard back from a single job. It has been two years since my last TV role, one year of The Pandemic...
I am Alexis. I am a survivor of domestic abuse. I am also an actor and content creator and just want to be able to focus on that after this horrid time. This is me, today, after my first run as a free woman. There is a light. There is a way. Thread 1/3
Kylie Minogue - Body Language
To celebrate 20 years of Kylie Minogue’s ninth studio album ‘Body Language’, the album will be pressed on vinyl for the first time, on a special limited edition red blooded vinyl.
Pre-order here:
...but it’s been too long now and I want to go back to being Alexis. I deserve that. I will stream again in a couple of days. Just need to curl up for a bit after this vulnerability hangover. Thanks for all your support. I’ve been overwhelmed. Love, Alexis x
The pop video when Lucifer was my 'boyfriend'...
Back in the day, when I was an almost popstar, Tom Ellis aka Lucifer played my boyfriend in my (very expensive and fancy) music video for 'Bad Haircut' with
@UMusicuk
. To fit in with the vibe of the lyrics, he was tasked with
A thread🧵... Today we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of me being (mistakenly) banned from TV's 'Lorraine' Show over a lyric about an ice cream flavour. Buckle up and let me tell you the whole hilarious story...you're gonna wanna read this! 😂1/8
@RoseStokes
My 7 year old daughter picking up a mortal and pestle and telling me if a burglar breaks in she will hit him with it, first on the willy and then in the face
THREAD: A message for the twat who came into my stream and made a comment about me having a 'mum pouch'.
First off, I am a comedy streamer, I make fun content. I am not a model. I'm not trying to be.
I will not be defined by my mum pouch or any other wobbly bits. There are many..
Thread. Got to get this off my chest. I lost a couple of male followers this week in solidarity with the male streamer who I banned from my community. I banned him for harassing three women. I didn’t name him but I did believe them… he did a two hour stream rant about me…
I can’t talk about what he has done on here as it’s not safe but if I can give any advice to anyone in a similar situation, it would be to document every single incident, phone call, text, email and honestly, my hands are shaking as they I type all of this...
Ran for the women and children who have suffered domestic abuse. No-one should ever gaslight you, humiliate you, harass you. No-one.
@womensaid
#asicsLDN10k
A thread 📷... BIG NEWS! 18 years late mebbe but on Sat 8th July 2023 u will finally be able to pre-order 'Cocoon', the album I made for
@UMusicuk
in 2005! I can't tell u how emosh it makes me & will explain all here, but safe to say, TWITTER MADE ME DO IT! Oh and pls RT!.. 1/11
This was me 20 years ago just after my album with Universal was pulled.
I’m with my mum who sadly has dementia now & won’t remember but little 20 sthg me would never have imagined this day would come. I wish I could tell her about my album Cocoon & say, Mum, I’m finally a 🦋 x
Offered a record deal at 45!!! UPDATE!
For those of you who have followed my story, thank you- it’s amazing to be given the chance for a second act. My music will finally be heard, 20 years on! Thx to
@reallorraine
too. Never give up! Please share! Thx
#WednesdayMotivation
❤️
And yes this all makes me feel vulnerable and embarrassed but it’s important to be real about these things. Failure, like success is so subjective and we are all so hard on ourselves. Hopefully I am now one step closer to marrying Channing Tatum & having my own range in Poundland
I’m terrified to type all of this but it is important for others not just me. Things got worse when I left him. I’ve had countless interventions from police, courts, charities and it has consumed my life for years. He flares up on birthdays and christmases and I dread them...
Honesty about loneliness… been a great year but still, I’m alone. This goes out to everyone who’s feeling the same way. It sucks, especially as ruddy Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. So basically I’m gonna do a free gig for lonely lovers in Feb. Look out for it 👀 xxx
And the wonderful team at
@womensaid
and other voices on here such as
@NataliePage31
and
@vicderbyshire
. I’m embarrassed and ashamed still to come out and say all this. I want to work, date, socialise in the future and I don’t want to be seen as ‘that DV survivor’ but I am...
A thread🧵TWITTER, GOT ME A NEW RECORD DEAL! OMG can't believe I'm typing this but because of u lot making a fuss of me on here, I've just signed a deal with these dudes
@dbljmusic
to release my album, Cocoon worldwide with a full physical release incl two colour vinyl & CD! 1/5
A thread! 🧵if you’d have told me fifteen years ago, ten, even five that I’d be a Popstar again, I would never have believed it. I gave up. My heart was broken. But you, YOU gave me life this year & the hope that my music could live agan- it just shows you the power of social Pt1
… No-one is honest about how they are really doing and I’m doing *well* comparatively but the maths show that out of 110 auditions in 6 years, I booked 14 jobs. That’s a 1/8 strike rate. I hope sharing this helps. Do note the years I booked no jobs at all. Feels good to share…
Why I’m sometimes distracted or flaky. Believe me, I am ambitious as hell and every time he does something to me again I have to go back to square one. But if COVID has taught me nothing else, it’s that I am a fighter. I take my inspiration from
@Natsc2012
@C_Kneer
@OfficialMelB
🧵 A must read on surviving rejection for anyone creative-
#writers
#actors
#musicians
etc
#MondayMotivaton
I’m Alexis Strum & 20 years ago was hailed as the next big thing in pop, then got dropped by Warners, then Universal. This year I got re-signed and I have some tips… 1/7
Every time I try and get somewhere with my acting, streaming, whatever, it’s like he’s watching, waiting to ruin it again. I’ve been to Court three times during this worldwide pandemic alone... and I’m so tired and angry. I know this isn’t the place but I just wanted to explain
@eliistender10
OMG my dad used to do that every time he picked me up from my friend Sarah's house. My favourite was as Crocodile Dundee! He even did the accent...
Every job I’ve done has been with me having to fight this on the side. The day I auditioned for Sick Note id been giving a police statement. The day I filmed it, playing a police officer ironically, I remember telling lovely Nick Frost on set about how scared for my life I was...
Thanks for all the lovely messages of support. I still feel a bit embarrassed about coming forward but judging by the responses, this may help others, so I am glad I did. I think I’d just had enough & got really angry about it all today & angry for my friends in similar situs x
A thread🧵… I’m a 20 year overnight success! I just wanted to share this post to give hope to anyone who felt they had to give up on their dreams. Yesterday I launched my album with my new record label. I recorded it 20 years ago! I had completely given up on music 1/6
..if you’re starting out as an actor or maybe you’re just feeling low about the industry, I hope you feel reassured by this post. Share it, think about it, and then shrug it off and be your fabulous self out there. You got this.
#actor
#acting
#castingdirectors
#casting
Love, A x
So, the first album I made for
@WarnerMusicUK
20 years ago and ALMOST released was largely good. I'm listening back to it today for the first time in a good ten years. Some vibes on there. Still particularly love listening to 'Nothing Good About This Goodbye' which Rachel Stevens
01.09.23. EXCITING NEWS! My
@WarnerMusicUK
album I recorded twenty frikkin two years ago finally comes out next week on digital! Whoop! This is for you, my gorgeouses. Please watch the video and share- it’s so important for us creatives to see stories like this. Never give up x
*TRIGGER WARNING! A thread 🧵...
So, I’m an actor and comedy person and former almost Popstar, but some of you may know that I’m also a survivor of domestic abuse and that I have complex PTSD. Well, earlier this year, at my therapist’s suggestion, I took up boxing... 1
I have PTSD as a result of the domestic abuse I survived. I’m also a mum, a daughter, an actor and writer. It doesn’t define me. Thanks to
@womensaid
and
@JewishWomensAid
I’m not ashamed of it. Don’t suffer in silence.
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
So glad that when I did a TV comedy writing course/ workshop about ten years ago and the producer in question left with his arm around one of the hotter younger female writers he had ‘picked’ out of the group that I wasn’t chosen now... will just leave that there today.
So on this momentous day, we eat Chunky Monkey ice cream.
#chunkymonkey
The moral to this story, kids, is never try to be too clever when writing a pop song because that sh&t catches up with you. P.S pls share to give me a chuckle or two so I don't crumble. Thx for reading! x 8/8
A thread🧵If you'd told little 25 year old me, just after losing her deal with
@UMG
, that in 20 years time her album 'Cocoon' would FINALLY come out & she'd be singing those songs to a packed LDN crowd, she'd have thought u were insane. Well, this is me after doing just that! 1/5
My agent is sending my script out this week, so I’m manifesting all the yasses! Feel free to add more yasses here! Thank you! 🙏
#writerslift
#writerslife
#amwriting
Having a parent with Alzheimer’s is literally the hardest thing I have ever been through. How does anyone get through this? Christmas is just filling me with immense dread. Apols for the honesty.
#Alzheimers
📽️Martin Fishback aka
@FergusCraig
can't reenact the Second World War with just five people, ok?
Clip from 'The HR Department' on Twitch.
Hot nonsense. x
...she told me to just keep going. I was a hot vulnerable mess that day but she cheered me up & reassured me. One hour later, and I am seriously not fucking joking, she rang me up and told me I had just been booked for a TV series. I thought she was joking. Two years I’d waited..
If you need help, theres so much support out there. It may take days, it may take years & u will have to battle hard, but u will survive. And then, hopefully, you piece yourself together again. And even if u are in an altogether different shape or form, you will be you again. 3/3
🚨🚨POP ACTIVISM ALERT!🚨🚨Together with the lady herself, we’ve got Alexis Strum’s unreleased 2003 album Addicted released for the first time. Produced by
@XenomaniaRCRDS
& inc Nothing Good About This Goodbye (Rachel Stevens) and Still Standing (Kylie)
Please like this tweet if you can see it! Basically, I've noticed that not as many people see my content anymore on here for some reason and it's so frustrating! I'm just trying to make comedy content to make people laugh, in the absence of having a tonne of acting werk. Thanks x
This is why women don’t come forward.I didn’t want to say anything in case people judge me for having survived DV. Casting directors, people who might employ me. But this man took my experience and trod on it. More women have come forward since. So to the guys who have unfollowed
... I’d been jealous, bitter, resentful and most of all sad for so long- I absolutely love acting. It’s my thing. Sometimes it’s just your time and others, it isn’t. Anyways, it’s just a story- hopefully it helps. It’s hard out there & of course I will be worrying when this ends
A thread🧵... Today we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of me being (mistakenly) banned from TV's 'Lorraine' Show over a lyric about an ice cream flavour. Buckle up and let me tell you the whole hilarious story...you're gonna wanna read this! 😂1/8
Literally never felt more alive than singing at an open mic night. Music runs through me. I kept this from my heart for so long. Being able to sing and play the guitar is a pleasure and I’m so glad I get to share my journey with you all x
Loving seeing all the
#sclub
#SClubTheGoodTimesTour
content on here so here’s ‘Nothing Good About This Goodbye, a track I wrote a with
@XenomaniaRCRDS
which the gorge Rachel Stevens covered on ‘Come And Get It’. Looking forward to performing this on Fri at my
@retropopmag
gig! X
OMG-about to be interviewed on
@BBCWomansHour
talking about The Time I Almost... Was A Popstar' and how you lovely Twitter lot supporting me as I release my music after 20 years! Do listen in if you can! Lifelong ambition achieved. 📷Thanks, Alexis x
#bbcwomanshour
@BBCRadio4
You think YOU’RE having a bad time, I found out at the weekend that this plant that I’ve been watering for TWO years is A FAKE! And I have a degree guys, from an actual University! 🌱 😊😂
Number 1 on the iTunes Singer Songwriter Chart! DEAD! I mean, not dead, just 46 but still, wowsers you lot! Thank you and please keep buying your copies and spreading the word of Cocoon so we can keep this going! Love you, Alexis x
📣 Official Announcement with my Hype Man!
#MondayMotivation
. More info in a thread coming tomorrow but please RT because I want to give hope to anyone else waiting 20 years to get their due! Thanks for all your amazing support x
Such a difficult Christmas, not gonna lie. Mum has advanced Alzheimer’s and for a lady who was once so whipsmart, quiptastic and bolshy, it has been painful to see the degeneration, particularly of her speech &vocab. These days she says little more than ‘ok’ but a chink of joy..
To the little twat who remarked that I have a ‘mum pouch’ onstream today, yer ruddy right I do. My body is magnificent. I am a KWEEN! I birthed a whole child out of this soft body. What have you done lately? Also, it’s not polite to comment on streamers bodies, dear.
It’s probably also worth noting that the projects I’ve gone for have gone up in profile each year, so when I audition for stuff now and don’t get it, I feel better knowing I was at least considered amongst people I recognise off the telly who were more suited to the role than me.
Taking a few days off streaming because I banned a couple of perps from my stream because they had been misusing the platform to harass other women - one of them is a streamer- and it’s becoming a bit unpleasant. I will always stand by victims but I have to take time out x
Discrediting me, citing the fact I have suffered DV as a reason why I can’t be trusted, that I was ‘pitiful’ and ‘opportunistic’. Male viewers sat in his chat applauding him, giving him money, attempting to cancel me for my simply believing these women…
Welcome! If you're a new follower, I'm a former (and 'gonna be again-er') popstar, comedian (3 mill views on TikTok), actor (BBC, SKY, ITV) & journo from London. Recently I went viral over some tweets (500k views) about my pop music past. U can see the best ones below. ⤵ Thx
Blimey, I've only had my music on Spotify for a month and we're already getting 22k monthly listeners. Just think how many I would have had if both albums had come out as planned 20 years ago! Please follow me on there-I've got some fab playlists to check out too. Ta, Alexis x
One of my agents, Abi at
@HMcPAgency
was so supportive and we talked through my tapes and how the industry is right now. She gave me her TIME which is the most important thing anyone can give you. She heard my frustration. We laughed about it. This is support and it meant a lot..