I'm A Celebrity star in tears as she recalls late mum's final days

Television professional Grace Dent appeared connected Lorraine to speech astir her caller book, Comfort Eating, wherever she spoke astir her beloved mum and the heartbreaking infinitesimal she mislaid her

Grace Dent has opened up astir the heartache of losing her mum successful 2021, sharing her communicative connected ITV's Lorraine. The I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! alum discussed however she comforted her parent during her last weeks and months. Grace, aged 51, was connected the amusement to chat astir her caller book, 'Comfort Eating', which delves into her ain go-to comfortableness foods, the memories they evoke, and pays homage to her precocious parents. She expressed to host Lorraine Kelly that "food and the saddest times successful beingness spell manus successful hand", a sentiment Lorraine echoed, reports OK!.

"This is simply a comic book, but it was written astir the clip I mislaid some of my parents. There's thing antithetic here, I'm astatine that signifier of beingness wherever your parents spell and you know, nutrient and caring, was the main happening during that point. And I deliberation it is for truthful galore people," Grace shared openly with Lorraine. She besides touched upon the relation nutrient plays arsenic beingness draws to a adjacent and reminisced astir the saccharine treats she shared with her mum successful her past months.

Grace added: "It ends up being trays delivered to beds and chats astir the clip you've got left. And, the portions getting smaller and smaller, and trying to find things connected the supermarket shelves that radical tin inactive eat. And I ever accidental 1 of the past things with my mum was those small idiosyncratic trifles."

"We loved trifle, we loved cake, we loved eating barroom together. We spent our full beingness connected an 1,000-calorie fare trying to get 'beach assemblage ready', until Friday erstwhile it was chippy beverage and it was each down the cookware again! Our past weeks and months together, it was conscionable delivering those bits of love."

Grace mislaid her mum successful 2021 and has been candid astir the grief she's endured. Chatting connected Kate Thornton's White Wine Question Time, Grace antecedently shared her earthy emotions astir being contiguous successful her mum's last moments and the existent travel of self-discovery: "We were each unneurotic arsenic a household up to the constituent wherever she died. And I conscionable deliberation that, if I americium to look backmost connected my life, I'm ne'er going to regret that," she confided to Kate.

She further reflected: "It's a truly unusual portion successful my life. I'm astatine that constituent wherever each day, I deliberation of something, I conscionable privation to ringing her. Now she's gone, I'm trying to enactment retired who I americium now. You commencement to realise that truthful overmuch of what you bash comes with calling them to archer them due to the fact that it'll marque them happy."