'I was feeling sad and angry with the world.'
Jones, who has cerebral palsy, also defended the documentary's title, which comes after previously announced contributors Shelby Lynch, Kate Stanforth and Lucy Dawson withdrew from the project.
“I understand that there are some people who are unhappy with the title,” she said. “The production company and the channel had many, many discussions about it. I’m not attempting to speak for the entire disabled community in any way. "This film is about my experience as a person with a physical disability [and a] word that’s still used extremely frequently, and thrown towards me in the street or on social media.
"This title is not used to shock. It’s about education and starting the conversation about how damaging the casual use of ableist language is. I’m taking back control of a word that’s been thrown at me as a weapon all of my life.”
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