John Altman: June Brown was like a second mother to me

OHMYGOSSIP — John Altman says June Brown was like a “second mother” to him.
The former ‘EastEnders’ star has paid tribute to his late on-screen mum, who passed away last weekend aged 95, admitting his own mother used to say she looked more like a mum to him than she did.
John – who played ‘Nasty’ Nick Cotton in the BBC soap, opposite June as his ma Dot Cotton – said: “She was a dear friend. Someone I could confide in, and probably my second mother, really.
“My real mother said she looked more like my mother than she did!”
John admitted the late Albert Square icon had “slowed right down” when he last saw her around a month ago.
He explained: “She was tired. She’d slowed right down.
“I’d like to say, so much thanks and God bless her family who’ve been fantastic, rallying round her – they’ve taken great care of her.
“She didn’t have to go into a home or anything. She spent her last days in her lovely home in the Surrey Hills.”
John also remembered June’s kindness to people and admitted it would take her ages to walk from the ‘EastEnders’ set to the canteen because she would often stop and chat to others.
He said: “I used to tell her off, ‘June, you can’t do any more charities’. She said, ‘Oh dear, I have to’. She supported the donkeys, among many others, Children with Cancer, The Taverners – she just couldn’t say no.
“We’d walk to the canteen at the BBC and it would always take about half an hour because she’d stop along the way chatting to people. She was so kind. She used to say healing prayers, actually. She was quite a spiritual person – she definitely believed in a higher power, something more than we know, perhaps. We were a good team.”

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