All Creatures Great and Small's Samuel West talks 'intense' relationship with famous mum
express.co.ukWest, who stars as Siegfried Farnon in Channel 5's reboot of All Creatures Great and Small, told the publication that despite her diagnosis: "My mother is all right, actually."Her Alzheimer's is a form that leaves her quite cheery which is entirely down to chance and I count us as being very lucky.”Scales is said to be going “increasingly deaf”, but stunned her son when she recited 19th century English poet Robert Browning's dramatic monologue A Toccata Of Galuppi's entirely from memory.The TV actor said: "To my incredible surprise I discovered she knows it all off by heart."I find it extraordinarily difficult to mourn the loss of someone who is still with us but not really there anymore.The mourning never stops."We are blessed that she is.
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