The following year, she was dropped from a pantomime performance of Beauty and the Beast after a series of controversial racist tweets emerged, for which Godley later apologised.

[4] The youngest of four children born to Annie and Jim Currie, she was raised on Kenmore Street in Shettleston, a district in the East End of Glasgow, and attended Eastbank Academy.

Living in poverty, which was rife in the East End during that time, Godley left school at 16 with no qualifications.

[8] Annie went missing and was found dead in 1982 by the River Clyde; Godley has stated that she believes that she was murdered by her abusive boyfriend Peter Greenshields.

[9] For fifteen years Godley and her husband ran the Weavers Inn public house in Glasgow, where she learned to handle a crowd.

[16][17] In 2020, Godley wrote and starred in a series of short films titled Alone, about a recently widowed housewife whose abusive husband has died of COVID-19, as part of the National Theatre of Scotland's Scenes for Survival webseries.

[18] In December 2020, the Royal Society of Edinburgh commended Godley's voice-overs of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's COVID-19 briefings for helping engage the public with the warnings.

[31] Their daughter, Ashley Storrie (born 1986), who also has autism spectrum disorder, is a stand-up comedian and BBC Radio Scotland presenter.

[34] In November 2021, Godley announced via Twitter the cancellation of the last weekend of her tour, explaining that she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and was being treated in hospital,[35][36] and underwent a full hysterectomy in January 2022.