2020-04-13_New_Magazine

NEWSFLASH

lockdown

NADIA ‘I’M

TRYING TO BE A

BETTER PERSON’

Here’s how the daytime TV stars

are dealing with life in isolation

D

enise Welch has

revealed it’s her fellow

LW ladies who have

been providing some

vital support during these

“frightening” times. And in an

attempt to keep spirits up, the

61-year-old said they’ve banned

“bad news” in their group chat.

“We have a WhatsApp group

and that is keeping me going,”

explained Denise, who has

been open about her ongoing

battle with depression. “We’re

just trying to make each other

laugh. We speak every day.”

The ex-Corrie actress also set

the record straight on rumours

the women are at loggerheads

when the cameras aren’t on.

“We’ve had our moments

over the years, but we genuinely

are great friends,” Denise said.

“We are not this backstabbing

bunch behind the scenes, or

else I certainly wouldn’t be able

to work with them.”

But even with such a good

support system around her,

which includes artist hubby

Lincoln Townley and her sons,

1975 singer Matt Healy, 30, and

actor Louis Healy, 19, Denise

still has bad days.

“I was cooking tea the other

day. A song came on the radio

and I just burst into tears. I was

crying uncontrollably for about

an hour,” she said last week.

However, Den is hoping her

new book, The Unwelcome

Visitor, which she’s called

a “chronicle of living with

depression and anxiety”,

will help those suffering with

mental health issues during the

current crisis. “Obviously at the

time of writing I had no idea we

were going to be thrown in this

global nightmare. The book will,

hopefully, be a help to those

who’ve understood depression

before and help those who

haven’t understand it.”

DENISE ‘THE GIRLS

ARE KEEPING

ME GOING’

I

n between home-

schooling her daughters

Maddie, 17, and Kiki, 12,

Nadia Sawalha, 55, is

using her time indoors “to be

a better person” by tackling

chores she normally wouldn’t

• like giving her windows
  a good scrub!
  But it quickly became
  apparent how much she relies
  on her window cleaner
  when she took to Instagram
  Stories to ask her followers
  for their help working out
  which coloured cloth was
  for washing them and
  which one was for buffing.
  Using the hashtag,
  “tryingtobeabetterperson,”
  she groaned, “Spending
  too much time in the
  house... usually don’t give
  a damn about my dirty
  windows!!” before holding
  up each cloth to the
  camera in confusion.
  But Nadia wasn’t the
  only panellist struggling
  last week. Kaye Adams
  said she “had really high
  hopes of coming out the
  other side” like athlete
  Paula Radcliffe, saying

she thought she’d “use this

corona time to get up to doing

5K really comfortably”. But her

sessions aren’t going well, with

Kaye, 57, admitting she finds

running “f**king murder.” She

added, “I’m hating running

more and more every day. I’m

also pretty sure I’m getting

slower every day. Does

anyone actually enjoy this?”

Her hubby

Lincoln has

supported her

Nadia asked

fans for window

cleaning advice

Kaye, left,

finds running

a struggle