Whatever your pre-breakfast game face, just know that Annie Clark’s is better.

(The Me Decade hedonism is real; the kicky blonde bob is a wig.)

“Pops was in the clink for 10 years, and he’s out,” she says.

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“I don’t mention it for sympathy or trauma points or anything like that.

I was like, ‘Oh, this is awkward.

I don’t want to really talk about this.'”

Until she realized she could steer that narrative herself.

She laughs, drawing out the last word.

“That’s notnottrue…. Had a plumbing experience.

“I wish I was on tour this exact moment,” she says wistfully.

“Give me a hangover and a Qantas airline lounge.

Put me in, coach.”