Katherine Ryan on marriage, miscarriage and finding her mellow self

The caustic comedian reveals how comedy helped her cope with two miscarriages and finding the love of her life after a string of toxic relationships.

Katherine Ryan (Carla Guler/PA)

She may be in the business of making us laugh, but some of the experiences acerbic Canadian comedian Katherine Ryan details in her new memoir, The Audacity, could make us shed a tear or two as well.

Toxic relationships, cheating boyfriends, botched cosmetic surgery and, most traumatically, the murder of her friend at the hands of an abusive partner while she was living in Canada, are just some of the experiences the comedian, once described as the Millennial Joan Rivers, has charted in her memoir.