Amanda Barrie has admitted she'd probably be "cancelled" by today's standards if people were to hear what she says within the four walls of her own home.
The Coronation Street legend conceded that when it comes to trying not to offend everyone in today's politically correct era, things have "gone too far".
"I’d probably be cancelled three or four times a day if people could hear me at home," the 90-year-old said in a new interview.
Sharing her own experiences, she recalled: "I heard something the other day – something like a guy not being allowed to say to a woman, ‘You look nice or I like your dress’ – that was just ridiculous.
Amanda Barrie has been in showbusiness for over six decades
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"Or comments that are meant as an affectionate joke, but they’re manipulated into something else entirely.
"I’ve heard that taxi drivers aren’t allowed to call you darling anymore. But I call them darling all the time, and that’s OK?"
Her damning assessment of cancel culture went further: "It’s been taken too far in that way. Everyone is so literal in their understanding of stuff today."
Elsewhere in her interview with The Sun, Ms Barrie urged people to find their British sense of humour once more, insisting it's what Brits are best known for.
Amanda Barrie in Carry On Cleo in 1964
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"We Brits have always been known for our great sense of humour, but it’s like you can’t have a bit of a joke about anything anymore in case it might be interpreted as being offensive," she bemoaned.
"But we must keep our sense of humour – that’s essential."
Ms Barrie was speaking ahead of the release of the paperback version of her latest book, I’m Still Here: My 90 Years.
Initially released last year, Ms Barrie's autobiography was published over two decades after her first autobiography, It's Not A Rehearsal.
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Amanda Barrie was a key part of the Corrie cast in 1990s
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The 2002 text was Ms Barrie's first time publicly revealing her bisexuality. She went on to marry novelist Hilary Bonner in September 2014.
Speaking ahead of her latest book's hardback release in 2025, Ms Barrie revealed how she intentionally concealed her sexuality for fear of being sacked from the ITV soap, Coronation Street.
Ms Barrie portrayed Alma Sedgewick intermittently across two decades from 1981, and told This Morning last year: "There isn't a word that you can use, an analogy, to say, 'that's what it's like'.
"Somebody shopped me to the press, somebody I should have known better."
Amanda Barrie with legendary comic Jimmy Tarbuck
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She described how colleagues and friends were fully aware of her relationships, yet the broader industry treated non-heterosexual individuals with suspicion and hostility.
"I think people thought it was catching, if you dealt with anybody who happened to be not quite straight down the middle, that we might catch that," she recalled.
"But you were sort of pushed away, really, and whispered about it.
"I know that I would have been sacked from Coronation Street, they would have got rid (of me)... it would have been a general 'we don't want anything to do with that'," she stated.
The actress acknowledged she could not definitively prove the claim, but remains convinced of the outcome she would have faced.
When she eventually disclosed her bisexuality publicly, Ms Barrie anticipated the worst possible reception from the public.
"I thought I was going to be stoned in the streets," she admitted, describing her expectations of hostility and rejection.
The reality proved far more positive than Barrie had feared. Rather than condemnation, she found herself embraced by those around her.