Brooke Vincent, best known for her role as Sophie Webster on Coronation Street, has spoken candidly about navigating grief.
The actress lost her beloved grandmother Joan in October 2024, and Brooke has now shared just how deeply it affected her.
Reflecting on the experience, she described the shock and pain as feeling like ‘a punch straight to the gut,’ capturing the raw impact of losing someone so close.
Brooke is still processing her nana’s death (Credit: ITV)
Coronation Street actress Brooke Vincent shares grief for nana Joan
Speaking recently on the Live, Laugh, Luke podcast, Brooke shared her experience with grief and how she’s still processing the death of her beloved ‘nana’ a year on from her passing.
She said: “I feel I’m at a stage where I can talk without feeling like someone’s punched me in the throat.
“For a long time I felt like someone was punching me in the throat whenever I spoke about it. It comes on to you at the most random times. I struggle with it.
“My nana, she probably would be proud, but I don’t feel like I’m taking her proudness from you. I think when you lose somebody who is that close to you, you just feel [like] ‘[bleep] everything else’ because nothing will hurt me as much as this.”
The actress went on to explain that caring for her children kept her moving each day, but the moment the house fell quiet, the emotions hit hard and she’d break down in private.
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