CALL The Midwife star Helen George has opened up about the heartbreaking reality of losing a partner to cancer.
Speaking on her new podcast Mystic Mates, the 42-year-old revealed a former boyfriend was given a terminal diagnosis while they were dating.
Helen George has opened up about the heartbreaking loss of a former boyfriend Credit: Getty
Helen has played Trixie Franklin on Call the Midwife since the BBC drama began Credit: BBC
Helen, who plays Trixie Franklin in the long-running BBC drama, heartbreakingly revealed: “I had been dating someone who very suddenly got diagnosed with leukaemia. It was pretty serious from the start, and he knew.”
Sadly, the man whose identity Helen didn’t disclose, later died from the blood cancer.
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Helen revealed the loss happened shortly before she flew to the Bahamas to film ITV’s Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters last year.
The TV star went on: “The next day after that happened, I had to fly out to the Bahamas to film the ITV shark documentary. I would call my best friend and sob down the phone about this lovely, beautiful man.”
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Helen flew to the Bahamas to film the day after her former boyfriend died Credit: Shutterstock Editorial
Helen recently split from hedge fund manager Dan Innes after seven months of living together Credit: Getty
She confessed she now believes her ex-boyfriend is communicating with her through clairvoyants.
“He now comes through in my clairvoyancy readings – he’s looking after me,” she said, before adding: “I’d like to be a clairvoyant. I’d like to talk to dead people.”
She continued: “I went to this clairvoyant last week, and she said, ‘This is your ex-boyfriend, and he died very suddenly after you started dating him. He’s come into the room because he’s not very happy about your situation.’
“I cried because it was wonderful to think this person, whom I didn’t really know for that long, was there.
“He was angry that he’d left me looking for someone else and then finding someone else who wasn’t suitable.”
Mum-of-two Helen recently split from hedge fund manager Dan Innes just seven months after the couple moved in together.
She shares daughters Wren, eight, and Lark, four, with former Call The Midwife co-star Jack Ashton.
The pair were together for seven years before calling time on their relationship in 2023.
Before her relationship with Jack Ashton, Helen was married to actor Oliver Boot, whom she met while filming Hotel Babylon. The couple divorced in 2015.
