I was Derry glad to get the role... I'd just been sacked

Saoirse lost sales gig before break

- EOIN MURPHY

DERRY Girls star Saoirse-Monica Jackson has revealed how she landed the career-changing role just after getting fired from her job as a door-to-door salesperson.

The 26-year-old is currently surviving lockdown in her London house share where she talked about life before she found stardom.

And she revealed that prior to landing the part of Erin Quinn in Derry Girls, it was very different.

Saoirse said: “Before I got the Derry Girls call, I was living with my ex-boyfriend in Manchester.

“I was lying to him, telling him that I had a sales job in town.

“Every day he would drop me at this office block and then I would go around the corner, get into this car and drive to the outskirts of Manchester and sell the meal kit service door to door.