‘A random woman slid into my DMs – turns out she was my mum’

Candace Bryan planned on doing her debut Edinburgh Fringe hour about her dad, who raised her as a single parent.

But last year, the US comedian was doomscrolling, and her estranged mother has slid into her DMs. Now, she’s got a lot to unpack.

‘I had mostly written her off,’ Candace tells Metro in a chat ahead of her Fringe run, where she will discuss this mysterious enigma that is her mother every night in her show MILF (Mom I’d Like to Find).

Candace’s mother and father divorced when she was a baby. She had not seen or heard from her since, save one time she remembers as a child.

‘It was kind of a blur, but I sort of remember not liking her very much and I remember her smoking a lot of cigarettes,’ Candace says.

But while Candace spent much of her life thinking her mother didn’t have