Comic PJ Gallagher has revealed he wouldn’t have become a comedian if he hadn’t been adopted.
The Fear star, who reconnected with his birth family, from Co Roscommon 13 years ago – admitted his life would have been very different had he grown up outside Dublin.
“You go and look at a different life and you think, ‘What would I have done?'” he said.
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“One thing is for sure, there’s no way I’d be telling jokes for a living if I hadn’t been adopted.
“Maybe my life would have been better or maybe it would have been worse. I don’t know,” he told the Irish Sun.
The Dubliner theatre show tour, Separated at Birth: The Lighter Side of Adoption by Two Comedy Orphans, with fellow comedian Joanne McNally has been a huge success that they have extended it.
“When you hear about adoption on the telly, it’s the likes of Davina McCaul springing people on you,” he admitted.
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“Then it’s all tears and really sad but in both of our cases we don’t have big sad stories.
“So we decided to tell our story. Just to say to people that you can be grand and have a laugh with it all,” he said.
“At the end of every single night of the show, you get ten or more people coming up to say they’ve been adopted and they say they feel it’s great to hear people talking about it normally.”
“Sometimes you tell people you’re adopted and they nearly apologise to you. But for me it was grand, I know that’s not the case for everyone but for me it was,” he added.
