Dancing On Ice star Chelsee Healey reveals she suffered miscarriage

Soap prima Chelsee Healey has said she suffered a miscarriage, soon aft opening grooming for Dancing On Ice.

The British actress, 36, who roseate to fame arsenic Janeece Bryant connected BBC schoolhouse play Waterloo Road, was the archetypal personage to exit ITV’s crystal skating show, departing aft a skate-off with comedian Josh Jones.

Also known for her roles arsenic Honey Wright successful the BBC aesculapian play bid Casualty and Goldie McQueen successful the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, Healey wrote connected Instagram that she had not been capable to speech astir her miscarriage until present “because it’s been excessively painful”.

She besides said she was sharing her communicative truthful she “can assistance different women going done thing similar”.

Healey added: “Whilst committed to DOI and the engaged grooming schedule, to our daze we discovered that I was pregnant.

“Within weeks of uncovering retired this news, earlier maine and my household could let this quality to descend successful and digest it, I suffered a miscarriage.

“Understandably this truly did devastate maine and deed maine deeply, uncovering retired this quality and past having it taken successful specified a abbreviated impervious of clip (sic) is an atrocious batch to woody with. I cognize I americium beyond blessed to person 2 beauteous daughters but the grief inactive feels enormous.

“I americium grieving for the small psyche I carried momentarily who I’ll ne'er get to meet, the sibling that my girls volition ne'er get to have. The kid that volition everlastingly permission my bosom funny with the ‘what ifs’. And it is painful.”

She besides said that she thought she “could conscionable transportation connected but anyone who knows me, knew I wasn’t right”, and miscarriage nonaccomplishment “hurts otherwise and I can’t conscionable determination on, not yet anyway”.

Healey added: “I deliberation that my small babe deserves to beryllium honoured by maine allowing myself to consciousness each the emotions, each the sadness for what volition not be. There is nary shame successful that.

“For immoderate pistillate going done thing similar. I americium genuinely atrocious for your nonaccomplishment and I anticipation you are allowed to explicit and consciousness your emotions. I anticipation you find your mode done this. Our heavenly children merit a spot successful our hearts.”

Healey besides thanked her family, Dancing On Ice, and ITV on with her skating spouse Andy Buchanan for their “support”.

Buchanan and world prima Ferne McCann, who was the 2nd personage eliminated from Dancing On ice, commented connected the post.

McCann wrote: “You’re a formidable force. And it was a pleasance moving alongside you erstwhile you was going done each of this darling. Your girlies are fortunate to person specified a beardown mamma.”

Buchanan wrote: “You’re a peculiar idiosyncratic and I can’t explicit however overmuch I respect you arsenic a person and a partner.

“Knowing what you were going through, you ever impressed maine with however you enactment connected a brave look and treated everyone astir you with specified kindness, adjacent connected you astir hard days. You’re brave for sharing this.”

Healey has antecedently spoken astir having a hard archetypal commencement with her daughter, Coco, who she shares with erstwhile partner Jack Molloy.

She said successful 2017 that she had an exigency Caesarean to present her daughter, aft the “worst and longest labour”.

In 2023, she announced the commencement of her 2nd daughter, Cookie Al Rainford, with different partner.

On Sunday, Jones revealed helium was leaving Dancing On Ice aboriginal aft suffering an ankle injury, saying helium was “gutted” to beryllium “eliminated by gravity”.