Published on Monday 11 June 2012 08:27
ULSTER actor Jimmy Nesbitt is reported to have flown home from New Zealand following the death of his mother May.
The star had been filming his latest movie The Hobbit when he learned that his much-loved mum had passed away.
May Nesbitt had been suffering from Alzheimer’s and died in hospital surrounded by her husband Jim and Jimmy’s sisters in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Speaking in a newspaper interview in 2010, the 47-year-old star of Cold Feet and Murphy’s Law said he was heartbroken that his mother’s condition had deteriorated to the point where she didn’t recognise him.
“For the first time in quite a long time I wasn’t able to get over and if you spend a bit of time away the deterioration is, in a sense, more marked,” he said at the time.
The actor said his 83-year-old dad and the rest of the family struggled to cope as Mrs Nesbitt’s condition began to worsen.
In the 2010 interview he went on: “As families of sufferers of Alzheimer’s will testify, you go through many stages. You do go through a terrible stage early on when it’s first happening because the sufferer is kind of aware of something happening to them and that can be scary.”
READ MORE: http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/local/nesbitt-flies-home-to-mourn-mother-1-3936696
No comments:
Post a Comment