Ruby Waxâs âtorturous childhoodâ as she makes confession about parents
The British-American actress' parents, Edward and Berta Wachs, fled Vienna for the US in the 1930s to escape the Nazi threat, but Ruby says they were both "torturous"
The British-American actress' parents, Edward and Berta Wachs, fled Vienna for the US in the 1930s to escape the Nazi threat, but Ruby says they were both "torturous"The British-American actress shared insights into life with her parents, Edward and Berta Wachs (
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Ruby Wax has shared a heart-breaking confession about her late parents during a candid chat about her difficult childhood.
The British-American actress shared insights into life with her parents, Edward and Berta Wachs, who left Vienna for the US in the 1930s amidst the looming threat of the Nazis and World War Two.
Ruby, who has previously opened up about her tough childhood, would later move to the UK and work with the Royal Shakespeare Company before securing a role with the BBC in the early 1990s.
In a recent interview with the Great Company with Jamie Laing podcast, she spoke about how her parents were "torturous", one of whom "innocently" while the other was "on purpose", but stressed that her father was "mean" and would play "mind games".
Ruby went on to say they brought the "war from Europe into our kitchen" (Image:
Getty Images)Ruby said: "Well, you know, I wrote about it in my book, Iâm Not as Well as I Thought I Was, and other books. And this is not all I talk about, but they were torturous, both of them - in my mother innocently and my dad on purpose. You know, he'd play mind games. He'd keep telling me how rich I was.
"You know, he'd take me to the bank and rattle some papers downstairs, going, 'Boy, are you rich'. It turned out I wasn't at all, but it kept me at home till I was, you know, (in) my late 30s.
"I thought we were really rich and every time he'd do something vicious, I'd write down a number saying he owes me this much; he owes me this much. If there was a beating, I charged a lot."
She went on to say that her mother was "hysterical" and Ruby could make the joke that she was "on the ceiling with Q-tips", adding that she was "never without a sponge".
She said her father would call her a "sad sack", an "idiot" and quizzed who would marry her (Image:
Getty Images)Ruby went on to say they brought the "war from Europe into our kitchen", but added that she "can't blame it on the war, but he was mean". She said her father would call her a "sad sack", an "idiot" and quizzed who would marry her.
The comedian said it "never stopped", with the comments even occurring when she had done well. Host Jamie Laing asked Ruby if she loved her parents, to which she replied "no, I didn't", although she conceded that she does in a "primal way".
However, she didn't "really know who they were" and wasn't "really upset" when they died. In 2023, the Mail reports, Ruby told Kate Garraway's Life Stories: "'They were pretty violent with each other (and me), you'd have the sh** knocked out of you."
In a separate Mail piece from 2017, it was reported that Ruby had appeared on Who Do You Think You Are? In the episode, she learned that her father had been imprisoned and tortured by the Nazis for his Jewish faith but her parents never told her.
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