Jamie Lee Curtis on the very real struggle to get hold of toilet paper in the pandemic

The struggle is very, very real.
By Rachel Thompson  on 
Jamie Lee Curtis on the very real struggle to get hold of toilet paper in the pandemic
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The Great Loo Roll Panic Buying Spree of 2020 was one of the more bizarre aspects of living through a global pandemic. Those who rushed out and bought up all the toilet roll they could find created a bit of an, errr, situation for those of us who hadn't managed to stock up on essentials for a while.

As Jamie Lee Curtis can attest, getting hold of any toilet rolls was basically like striking gold. Speaking to James Corden, Curtis described how she usually keeps a very well-stocked household, but she was supposed to leave and go make a movie in Canada for three months when the pandemic was declared. "So now I'm at home with my husband and the one thing I hadn't checked was if we had enough toilet paper," she said. When she discovered a local market that was allowing customers to buy two packs of TP at a time, she couldn't believe her luck.

"I'm a really calm person and I'm really good in an emergency but that undid me," she said.

The TP struggle is real, my friend.

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Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Based in the UK, Rachel writes about sex, relationships, and online culture. She has been a sex and dating writer for a decade and she is the author of Rough (Penguin Random House, 2021). She is currently working on her second non-fiction book.


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