Anita Dobson opens up on the difficult life during Covid-19 lockdown, admitting she was overwhelmed as she had to care for her rocker husband following his heart attack.
- Oct 22, 2021
AceShowbiz - Actress Anita Dobson found it tough being "cleaner, cook and carer" for Brian May after he suffered a heart attack.
The former "EastEnders" star, who has been married to the rocker since 2000, was overwhelmed by the challenge of caring for her husband, who suffered a heart attack during the first coronavirus lockdown in 2020.
"My husband had a heart attack, sciatica and a haemorrhage, and I suddenly went from being a working actress to being a cleaner, cook and carer," she said. "Not a role I'm easily castable for!"
"I did the best I could and thank God he's all right now. He's very kind. He says, 'It's down to Anita that I got through it.' But what you would have seen behind the scenes was a menial who was so grumpy it just wasn't true."
"I'd go off into a corner and mutter away to myself, the cat, the fish and the birds in the trees - anybody who would listen."
Anita admitted that, at one point, she wondered whether she'd need to become Brian's permanent carer.
The actress told Woman's Weekly magazine, "Lockdown was dreadful, a nightmare that I wish never to go back into. Even when Brian started to get better there was this awful feeling of is this my life now?"
