Elva Trill: 'Sometimes, I feel like there must be something wrong with me'

'Rejection in this industry is rife and you have to stop internalising if you don't get something'

Elva Trill: "I was very lucky to grow up in the home that I did where creative sparks were cultivated. The kindness of my mother — she saw that it used to light me up."

I grew up an only child in Sligo in a small town called Ballymoate. I was very much my own best friend bar my dog.

I had a speech impediment when I was a child. I stuttered and I couldn’t really communicate with kids my own age — or with adults for that matter.