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    Erin Doherty was scolded by her mother for swearing in her Emmy Awards acceptance speech

    The 33-year-old star was honoured at last year's ceremony for her portrayal of child psychologist Briony Ariston in the Netflix series Adolescence, but got a stern telling off after using an expletive in her speech.


    Erin - who was also victorious at the Critics' Choice Awards on Sunday (04.01.26) - told Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday (05.01.26): "You're not supposed to swear but I kind of just got up there and I saw everyone and I just had to tell them that they were stunning.

    "I know it's basically like hooray, hooray we won the Emmys, got back to the hotel, had some room service and I was like, 'Oh my sister will be up now', so we gave her a quick FaceTime with the thing (the award) and like we were all screaming and my mum just happened to be there, like they were about to go out on a dog walk.

    "Like we're screaming, 'Whoa, whoa', and my mum just butts her head in and it's like, 'Can I just interrupt? I could have done without swearing.'"

    The A Thousand Blows star continued: "She wasn't like, 'Well done', I didn't get any word of like 'Well done', she was just like, 'Erin, you really kind of messed up there.'"

    Meanwhile, Erin recently explained that she has moved in with her girlfriend Sinead Donnelly and stated that the duo have become "cliche lesbians".

    The Crown star told Fearne Cotton's Happy Place podcast: "I'm such a romantic. I hate saying goodbye at the end of every day. I hated it. I'm so bad.

    "People say it's like a cliche lesbian thing, where you immediately move in, so we held on as long as we could. But I was like, I really think I should move in now.

    "I tried to make it as non-cliche as possible, but I just love her. So at the start of (last) year, I moved in with her and it's been the craziest year of my life."

    Erin moved in with her girlfriend in London after spending a year staying with her older sister Grace Doherty - who is also an actress - in West Sussex after a tough period in her personal life.

    She explained: "I had moved in because I just had hit my peak stimulation and I was just at a real kind of stopping point in my life and my sister was like and my sister was like, come live with me.

    "She lives in West Sussex, she's got walks on her doorstep. We could just go out every morning, whenever we wanted. She was just like, 'Erin, come to me.'

    "I love my sister so much. She is just my safety net, my best friend. She's just everything."

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