Loose Women panellist Judi Love broke down on Wednesday's show as she opened up about her childhood.
The 42-year-old comedian was treated to a special segment on the ITV lunchtime programme called 'Life Before Loose' as Kaye Adams, Jane Moore and Gloria Hunniford spoke to her about her rise to fame.
After a montage clip was shown, the camera cut back to Judi as she wiped away tears from her eyes.
Explaining to the trio why she was so upset, Judi said: ”It’s overwhelming, it’s joyous tears… when you’re living in the journey and so busy doing it and so focused on where you want to get to, that you kind of park things where they are, where they have been because you’re on a new path.
"So seeing it all back, you remember the process, you remember the tiredness, the joy, the hurt, the laughter, the people, so yeah, that’s what it’s done.”
Reflecting on her childhood, Judi revealed: “It was good food, good vibes - we didn’t have much at all, but you knew you had love and for us, God, you had faith, you had family and that’s what it was all about."
Judi then spoke about being born in Hackney and growing up in a maisonette in Leyton, east London and said: "That house was where I had so much love, but I had some of the biggest traumas, being a child carer…"
She then went on to recall when her mother had an aneurysm when Judi was just nine-years-old.
"I was there when it happened. My mum’s doing what she does so well, which was cooking at the time, making cakes for a summer fete I had in school and she was just like… she doesn’t feel well, I remember her calling me and then she started to pray and I knew something was wrong.”
She continued: "It was so weird, I was running out of the house - we had these [new] Wellington boots, but money was tight and she was like, ‘you can’t wear them until the end of that summer’…
"In that moment of not knowing if my mum could pass away, I saw these Wellington boots and I’ll never forget, I put them on and I ran outside and I went to a lady at the top of the road - my mum used to look after her daughter, and they came in and saw my mum was in a bad way and they kept me in the front room.
"Then my dad [who wasn’t living with us at the time] turned up and I was like, ‘something is wrong’. He looked so nervous.
"My mother was such a strong woman - very powerful, her presence, what she’s done, how she’s bringing us up, so when I saw my dad look nervous and emotional, I was like, ‘something is really, really serious.’
"Then my sister turned up and I don’t think I saw my mum for a little while and I remember having a conversation with my sister and a friend at the time and saying to her, ‘what mum has, is it something that won’t get better and we won’t see mum again?'
"I remember them crying and I was like, ‘this is serious.’ I probably saw my mum again four weeks or so after that… because she was in intensive care - she had to be resuscitated and rehabilitated," Judi added.
Explaining how comedy helped her through the trauma she was experiencing at that time, Judi explained she and lots of members of her family had “big personalities” and “comedy bones.”
She said, “I was a chubby girl and for me, that came from trauma. When I was at school, being popular was making everyone laugh, facial expressions and just being about that vibe and that got me through. Comedy was a way of me navigating through emotions I was feeling.”
Loose Women airs weekdays at 12:30pm on ITV and ITV Hub.
