Jun 08, 2014 13:42 By Craig McDonald
THE husband of High Road actress Briony McRoberts has told how his wife was “murdered by anorexia”.
Briony tragically jumped to her death under a train last year at the age of 56.
Speaking for the first time about his loss, husband David Robb said: “She had a future. She hadn’t written, ‘Today’s the day’. She was murdered by anorexia.
“It isn’t a self-centred teenage disease. It kills people – including middle-aged women.
“It is a silent killer. Not a quirk of diet but a mental illness and if it gets its hooks in, it can suffocate.”
Downtown Abbey actor David, 66, told how his wife had likened her anorexia to being strangled by a boa constrictor.
He said: “She told me it felt like being squeezed all the time.”
Briony left home on July 17 last year with just her wedding ring and a travel card before she jumped in front of a train on the London underground near their home.
A former child star, she went on to play superbitch Sam Hagen in High Road. She was just three weeks away from beginning treatment for her eating disorder when she died.
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