She said: “I was very young actually, I was in Great Ormond Street and a staff nurse said to me, ‘You do realise you are taking up the bed of a really sick child, don’t you?’
“Now for me, that was the best thing she could possibly have said. Because it was a real wake-up call, it was like being hit on the head with the reality of it all.
“I feel sad for my darling mother because of all the worry I put her through.
“Actually, I would love to have that time back again because I’m afraid to say, from my point of view, it is something that you initiate yourself, you carry out yourself and you are the only person that can get yourself better.