"I used to go to the meetings with my ex-husband [Mr Scargill] and I thought, 'oh, I couldn't stand up and speak like that'.
"And then we were getting letters from all over saying, 'come and speak here, come and speak there'.
"It changed a hell of a lot of women."
Ms Scargill said she believed then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expected miners' wives to "make the men go back to work".
"She got a shock then, didn't she? She didn't realise we were fighting for our future," she said.
In the 2018 interview, Ms Scargill looked back on the first year of the strike with fondness, and said she did not regret "one minute" of what she had done.
"That Christmas was one of the best I've had in my life, because it were a community Christmas," she explained.
"I'm not saying it were easy - it were hard - but we thought, 'we'll show Thatcher. We're not giving in. We are women, we are strong, we are fighting for our rights'.'"
In her tribute to Ms Scargill, Ms Cook said: "I feel so alone when I go to different places where we normally would have been together."
The pair had been "arrested and locked up in the same cell, organised a picket line in India and narrowly missed being arrested fighting for the cotton workers", she said.
"We travelled the world together, and now you travel the heavenly skies. Love you, Anne."
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