Suranne Jones reveals her heartache at being away from baby son as she struggles with life as a working mum
The Bafta-winning actress has a stellar career, but she has to 'snatch moments' with her boy as her heavy workload takes its toll
SURANNE Jones has opened up about her heartache at being kept apart from her baby son as a busy working mum.
Her career has gone stellar since she became a household name in Coronation Street, but the actress has revealed her success has come at a price.
Suranne, 39 - who starred in the BBC's smash hit show Doctor Foster - has said her busy career means she "feels distant" from her 21-month-old son.
She told : "I'm in a very, very fortunate position to play the leads in things - in Doctor Foster and in a job that is coming up, I'm in almost every scene.
"So that's a 14-hour day, and the next job lasts for seven months.
"So even though I get time off now - and that's amazing, and me and my son are doing lots of Christmas sing-alongs and I am going along to all sorts of playgroups...
"The seven months and theatre before that will be really hard.
"It's 14 hours and then rushing in to put the baby to bed, or just missing it and then trying to get up at 5am and the baby's not up until 6am, so you're just snatching moments.
"The pressure of trying to be the best in those moments is really hard...
"What you end up doing is singing and dancing and doing all sorts of stuff, and the child is going, 'What are you doing?' They kind of distance themselves."
The famously private star gave birth to her son - whose name she has not publicly named - in March 2016.
She admitted earlier this year during an appearance on This Morning: "I love being a mum. It is the best."
She met her husband, magazine editor Laurence Akers who is 10 years her senior, at the wedding of actress Sally Lindsay, in 2014 and they were engaged within six weeks.
They married the following year at a private ceremony in Islington Town Hall near their North London home.
Suranne also said that it "breaks her heart" watching their son have a close relationship with her husband.
She says: "When I am not around to do bed for a week or two, it's 'Dadda, Dadda, Dadda'.
"And it breaks my heart, because I am like, 'Oh, can you come to me? Oh, you don't want me, that's fine'. It's really hard."
Mancunian Suranne became a household name in 2000 when she joined Coronation Street for a four-year stint.
She won a National Television Award for her role as factory worker Karen, who went on to marry Steve McDonald.
The previously unlucky-in-love star's previous relationships include IT technician Jim Phelan, who she was engaged to in 2003, but split soon after.
The following year she dated he Corrie co-star Jonathan Wreather, but the pair broke up in 2005 shortly after she moved down to London for her career.
Her schedule is set to get even more hectic, as she stars in a new series from the creator of Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and will appear in the West End next year in a psychological thriller about a mother whose child goes missing in Frozen.
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Talking about her down time between jobs, Suranne has previously said there is no glamour to her daily routine.
She says: "You'll find me down the play park or on the Tube with my Converse on and a muslin cloth in my hand, wiping my boys snotty nose."
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