Barbara Windsor’s husband shares snaps of her watching her old Carry On films amid Alzheimer’s battle
BARBARA Windsor spent Christmas Day watching herself in a Carry On film as she reminisced with her husband Scott Mitchell.
He shared a sweet snap of the 82-year-old actress - who has Alzheimer's - posing next to her younger self in front of their TV.
She looked thrilled as she put her hands on her hips and then waved them in the air as she marked the special moment.
Babs starred in ten Carry On films from 1964 to 1977.
The acting legend's husband revealed the news she was battling the condition last year after being diagnosed in April 2014.
He says she likes watching her old films at Christmas to remember the past.
Speaking to the , Scott, 56, said: “The Carry Ons were on over Christmas. She does watch them and she can get quite emotional because she that is a past version of her…
“She still watches EastEnders every night. There’s still a picture of Peggy behind the bar and every time that comes into shot, I say ‘look, look, there’s my wife’ and she always laughs and says ‘that’s nice that they’ve still got that there’, so it’s really good.
She secretly filmed her last scene as EastEnders' Peggy Mitchell in 2016 to say goodbye to the character she'd played since 1994.
Barbara is now cared for by Scott who admitted that sometimes Barbara doesn't recognise him and asks where her husband is.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain, he said: "It hits her at certain times, the confusion; we get repetitive questions not knowing where the house is now.
"She can look at me straight in the eye and say, 'Do you know where my husband Scott is?'
In an interview on BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the Afternoon he added: “There's good and bad days, the confusion does progress and that becomes a lot more stressful for her to live with and you as the carer to watch.
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“I think what I've learnt by talking to other people is its very different for every case. It's very simple things that used to be very easy, whether that's signing something or writing a letter, opening something ...”
He continued: “At times very frustrating and irritable. It gets worse at night , with Barbara it's to do with our house. She constantly asks me over and over again at night whose house is this, is we staying here, is this house I grew up with my mummy....”