Call the Midwife star Helen George has revealed the death of a secret boyfriend from leukemia shortly after they began dating. George, 42, shared the private ordeal, which occurred while she was filming ITV's "Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters" in the Bahamas.
"I had been dating someone who very suddenly got diagnosed with leukaemia," George said on the Mystic Mates podcast. "It was pretty serious from the start and he knew. The next day after that happened I had to fly out to the Bahamas to film the ITV shark documentary. I would call my best friend and sob down the phone about this lovely, beautiful man."
George stated that spirituality and crystals helped her cope with the loss, leading her to believe that deceased loved ones continue to watch over the living. "He now comes through in my clairvoyancy readings – he's looking after me," she said of her boyfriend. "I'd like to be a clairvoyant. I'd like to talk to dead people."
She recalled a recent clairvoyancy reading where the medium identified her ex-boyfriend. "This is your ex boyfriend, and he died very suddenly after you started dating him. He's come into the room because he's not very happy about your situation," the clairvoyant reportedly told George. "I cried because it was wonderful to think this person, whom I didn't really know for that long, was there."
George's comments follow the recent end of her relationship with businessman Dan Innes. She was previously in a relationship with her Call the Midwife co-star Jack Ashton for seven years. George shares her London home with her two daughters.