Denise Welch has admitted to still being plagued with guilt about son Matty Healy's childhood and what she put her family through due to her drinking and drug taking at the height of her TV fame.
The subject of guilt was raised on Thursday's Loose Women due to comments made about Charlotte Church about guilt being 'a useless emotion' during her appearance on Thursday's Life Stories with Kate Garraway.
Picking up on Charlotte's words, host Kaye Adams asked the panel, which also included Linda Robson and Carol McGiffin, if they agreed with the Welsh singer and if they were regularly hit with feelings of guilt.
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Birds of a Feather star Linda said she had been riddled with guilt for what she put her family through with her drinking and 'going off the rails' when she was battling anxiety a few years ago.
And then Denise, who has sons Matty and Louis with ex husband Tim Healy, said she's had to do a lot of work on herself to "overcome the shame and the guilt," that her addictions left her with, at a time when she was also struggling with her mental health at the height of her TV fame on Coronation Street.
She explained: "OK, there was a reason for self-medicating, a mental illness; but it doesn't excuse it.
"And what I put my family through, I have a lot of guilt about that.
"Again, I'm completely forgiven and they don't put that on me, but I can't help feeling that.
"I wish I could go back sometimes and re-do parts of Matthew's childhood.
"Louis less so, because I've been sober for large parts of his.
Denise added:"It's very easy saying don't have regrets, but you can't help having them."
Just a few minutes earlier, Denise came in for praise from Loose Women viewers for her defence of Prince Harry after the news that Prince Andrew had settled his civil sex case with accuser Virginia Giuffre out of court for £12m, with Denise saying she was in no doubt 'The Queen bailed him out.'
She again hit out at the way Harry and Meghan had been treated by the media and, agreeing with her on Prince Harry, one fan tweeted: "Me too 100% treated like a criminal for wanting a life away from all that rubbish."
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