OHMYGOSSIP — Dame Maureen Lipman used art therapy to cope after losing her partner earlier this year.
The ‘Coronation Street’ actress’ significant other of 13 years, Guido Castro – who had a form of Parkinson’s disease – died in January due to complications from coronavirus, and following his passing, Maureen painted pictures of him to help her mourn.
She said: “I just painted him and painted him and painted him until I got it out of my system.
“It is therapeutic. I still paint him – I still often find myself doodling his face.”
Maureen, who plays Evelyn Plummer on the ITV soap, spoke about finding the practice helpful as she battled with her grief.
She said: “It changes you. My experience is just one of thousands of feeling bewildered and out on a limb. The residual pain, the grief, I let it drip out inclemently. Sometimes I can’t sleep.”
When her ex-husband Jack Rosenthal, a ‘Corrie’ writer, died in 2004, creativity soothed her then, too, as she wrote an afterword for the 2006 book ‘By Jack Rosenthal: An Autobiography in Six Acts’ after he passed away.
Maureen admits she she was “lucky” to have both men in her life.
She is quoted by the Daily Mirror newspaper as saying: “I don’t think about anything except how lucky I was to have had two such wonderful men.”
Maureen married Jack in 1974, and they had two children together; Amy, a playwright and Adam, an actor.
Following Guido’s death in January, she said: “He got COVID – it wasn’t COVID that killed him but it weakened him terribly.
“We don’t know how he got it or when or if he had it when he got the vaccine.
“I said to Guido, ‘It’s time to go. You’ve got to let go.’ And I think for once in his life he actually did what I told him.”
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