Graham Norton reveals his childhood lie to skip school that led to major surgery

“I honestly, only very recently, confessed this to my mother.”

Graham Norton had surgery to remove his appendix at a young age.

Cork television star Graham Norton says a lie he told so he could skip school led to major surgery for an issue he didn’t really have.

Norton’s acting skills were apparent at a young age as his claim to have a pain in his stomach brought him all the way to having an organ removed when he was seven or eight years old.