Soap star Sherrie reveals her suicide battle

Soap star Sherrie reveals her suicide battle
Soap star Sherrie reveals her suicide battle (Image credit: EMPICS)

Loose Women panellist Sherrie Hewson has revealed she's considered committing suicide. Sherrie, who found fame as an actress in Coronation Street in the 1990s, confessed to Gaby Roslin that at her lowest ebb she wanted to end it all. "I asked if there was a time she thought she couldn’t carry on and she wanted to end it?" says Gaby, who interviewed Sherrie and her daughter Keeley for her new UKTV Home series Celebrity Fantasy Homes. "Sherrie said: 'I can’t believe I’ve never told Keeley this and I’ve never even told my therapist, but yeah.' We just stood there stunned. Her daughter was in tears." The interview features on Celebrity Fantasy Homes on Friday, May 1 on Home. Twice-divorced Sherrie, 57, also discusses her troubled marriages, her relationships with toyboys and how her appearance on Plastic Surgery Live left her with low self-esteem. Gaby continued: "Afterwards Sherrie said: 'It’s like being in therapy with you - it’s incredible'. I said: 'Would you like us to cut it out?' And she said: 'No, that’s me, that’s why I’m still fighting.'" Get exclusive access to your favourite stars. Subscribe to TV Times magazine

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.