Brenda Edwards fights back tears watching Denise Welch's son sing about her depression
msn.comBrenda Edwards became visibly emotional on Thursday's Loose Women as she watched a clip of Denise Welch 's son singing. Matthew Healy is the singer of the band The 1975 and wrote a song called She Lays Down about his mother's depression.
During a discussion on the latest edition of the ITV show, Denise, 64, chatted with her co-stars Kaye Adams, Coleen Nolan and Brenda about whether or not you should tell your children when you're ill.
Referring to her past mental health problems, Denise said: "Matthew was used to mum being very poorly in bed. but it's interesting when kids grow up, how what you tell them and how they've processed it manifests. "Obviously with my eldest child, he's a singer and songwriter, and in this instance he wrote a song called She Lays Down and it's basically. . .
I told him when he was older and he could understand it, that depression robs you of the ability to love and I said that I used to lie down on the bedroom floor, and I'm not religious, but pray to whatever to help me to be able to love my child again. "And that's why he wrote 'She Lays Down'," Denise continued as she read out some of the lyrics to the song.
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