Gloria Hunniford believes her late daughter Caron Keating leaves white feathers for her as “calling cards”.
Loose Women star Gloria, 79, has described losing a child as “the worst thing that can happen to you in your life”.
Gloria, from Portadown, Northern Ireland, said losing Caron to breast cancer at the age of 41 in 2004, was the lowest point in her life.
But she also opened up about how Caron, who presented Blue Peter, believed in angels and thought that a single white feather was an angel’s calling card.
Gloria said: “She totally believed that if she found an isolated white feather, it was a sign of an angel’s calling card.
“Now, when I find that white feather, I’d like to believe that it’s Caron’s calling card.”
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The mum of three added: “She used to make me laugh, because if she couldn’t get parked she’d say, ‘I’ll just ask the parking angel’.”
Gloria, grandmother to Caron’s two sons with manager Russ Lindsay, added: “To lose a child is categorically the worst thing that can happen to you in your life.
“’That’s a low point that you never think you are going to be in and it is very hard to get out of it.
“I’ve lost parents, my former husband Don Keating, colleagues and friends, but losing a child is just one of the most horrific things that can happen to you.
“You’ve carried that child for nine months, given birth to that child, loved that child to maximum capacity.
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“To then lose that child, at whatever age, is utterly devastating.”
She added: “You are in such deep grief, it’s hard to take on the grief of people around you – it’s a very selfish grief for a while.
“I woke one day and I thought, I have a lovely husband and children and grandchildren and I have to get myself back to some sort of normality for them.”
