Helen George reveals death of secret boyfriend
Helen George has revealed a "lovely" man she was dating died of leukaemia last year.
Helen George's secret boyfriend died of leukaemia shortly after they started dating.
The 42-year-old actress - who has daughters Wren, eight, and Lark, four, with former partner Jack Ashton - has revealed she was in mourning last year when she flew out to the Bahamas to film Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters for ITV.
She said on the Mystic Mates podcast: "I had been dating someone who very suddenly got diagnosed with leukaemia. It was pretty serious from the start and he knew.
"The next day after that happened I had to fly out to the Bahamas to film the ITV shark documentary. I would call my best friend and sob down the phone about this lovely, beautiful man."
The Call the Midwife star turned to spirituality and crystals to cope with her grief and she believes her former lover is still "looking after" her.
She said: "He now comes through in my clairvoyancy readings – he's looking after me. I'd like to be a clairvoyant. I'd like to talk to dead people.
"I went to this clairvoyant last week and she said, 'This is your ex boyfriend, and he died very suddenly after you started dating him. He's come into the room because he's not very happy about your situation.
"I cried because it was wonderful to think this person, whom I didn't really know for that long, was there.
"He was angry that he'd left me looking for someone else and then finding someone else who wasn't suitable."
Helen's comments came shortly after it emerged she had split from Dan Innes, just seven months after the 52-year-old businessman had moved into her home.
And while she hadn't addressed the reports directly, she shared a series of cryptic posts on her Instagram Story.
One quotes she shared read: "I absolutely take responsibility for when I am wrong. But I will never apologise for responding to disrespect.
"If you lit the match, do not stand in the flames pretending to be the victim."
Another repost read: "I don’t want my daughter to be like me. I want her to speak up sooner. Walk away faster. Trust herself deeper. Apologise less. Take up more space. Ask bigger questions. Dream louder. And if that means she becomes everything I wasn’t good."
