'it was horrific'
Corrie’s Simon Gregson fights back tears over wife Emma’s 11 miscarriages and pays tribute to late ‘angel’ daughter
CORONATION Street star Simon Gregson has bravely opened up about losing 11 babies in a bid to have a family with his wife Emma.
The actor, 47, is now dad to three boys – Henry, Alfie and Harry – but was due to have a little girl who tragically died at 21 weeks.
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Opening up about the ordeal he and his wife of 12 years went through, Simon revealed: “We lost 11 along the way. It was horrific.”
Chatting to Tim Vincent on , he explained: “The first one was 21 weeks. When Emma lost Georgia, she was 21 weeks, and what had happened was Emma's tubes were twisted, but Georgia stayed alive long enough to untwist the tubes which they said it was amazing how she survived all that and then went.
“But that paved the way for Alfie you see, so we always think of her as like an angel. But then we lost loads along the way. I think it's because Emma can't carry girls for some reason.”
Simon went to reveal how they continued trying to have children and “just got on with it”, but things were tough when his character on Corrie – Steve McDonald and his then partner Michelle (Kym Marsh) lost a baby.
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He continued: “I think the worst thing was when they made it into a storyline. They didn't know what had happened with me.
“It was with Kym, and Kym had lost a child. So of course, you know, they asked her whether she would do the storyline and of course, she didn't want to see - it's a prosthetic baby and it's amazing and it was dressed exactly the same as he was, you know, which I think is what she requested because she wanted the emotions to be real, but it was like this is a one take time.”
Simon then found he wanted to speak out about his own experiences because he felt men were never asked how they felt about the loss.
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“It was awful yes, but they didn't know so all the interviews were 'How does she feel, how does she feel?' and I had to interject and say 'Do you know what, 'It's not easy for the guy either',” he said.
“And that's when I thought I'm going to have to say something because it was really annoying me, that all the onus was on the woman and I went 'You know we've lost kids.'
“People wanted to know about it afterwards and we said yes we brought it to light because we think blokes should have a voice about these things, you know.”
He added: “Obviously the woman carries the baby and all this and there's a lot more of a connection there, but you know it's not easy for the guys either. It was a marvellous ending because we've got this Disney little child called Henry."
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