Former Eastenders and Coronation Street star Jill Halfpenny shares
vulnerable words she told her teen son following her partner’s death.
Jill, 48, has been open about the grief she suffered and how she found
happiness again after the death of her partner in 2019.
The EastEnders actress tragically lost her partner Matt Janes when he died from a heart attack while in the gym.
The shock death mirrored that of her dad’s, who died aged 36 in 1979 when she was just four years old, from a heart attack after playing a game of football.
During Thursday’s Lorraine, the soap actress told the ITV presenter how she handled the subject of grief with her son.
‘I said to him, Harvey there will be days where I will struggle more than others, there will be days where possibly all I can do is sit on the sofa with you and watch a movie and cuddle up, because that’s all I’ll be capable of, but I promise you I will be okay.
