Candace Bushnell: 'So many women tell me Sex And The City changed their lives'

Candace Bushnell was the real-life Carrie Bradshaw who spawned the groundbreaking TV series. She's on her way to Ireland to talk about some of the real stories that inspired the plot and characters 

Candace Bushnell will speak about her life at the Olympia in Dublin in May. Picture: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images.

When she arrived in New York from Connecticut as an 18-year-old in the late 1970s, Candace Bushnell was “pretty fearless”. “I was really wild, and I was like, out of control, and I don't know where that came from,” the 66-year-old author and Sex and the City creator tells the Irish Examiner from her home in the Hamptons, as a large poodle lolls by a window behind her. 

“Because of course, now I'm very organised and take care of everything. And back then I was just like: I've got to embrace life and whatever comes my way.”