“I was a bit of a dumb cluck in the film,” the real Philomena says, chuckling. “Some of those things I didn’t say. But it had to bring a bit of laughter into it. Because it’s so sad, you know.” Even today, there’s a lingering stigma about women who choose to place their children for Read more
Philomena Lee, the woman whose story inspired the Oscar nominated film “Philomena”, this week attended Mass in St Peter’s Square before meeting Pope Francis at his weekly General Audience. “Philomena” is the movie of Lee’s search for her adopted son. Lee, now 80, was an unmarried mother in Ireland in the 1950’s, and put into Read more
Philomena Lee, the real life subject of the acclaimed forced-adoption drama “Philomena,” has issued a letter defending the film against accusations that it is “anti-Catholic.” Responding to a review in the New York Post that called the film “hateful and boring,” the letter published by Deadline replied directly to the Post’s critic, Kyle Smith. The Read more