On Loose Women, Steps singer Faye Tozer grew very upset when discussing her late mother, explaining how difficult it has been to not have her on the other end of the phone for the last year.
In August of last year, the 47-year-old revealed the death of her mother in an Instagram post, praising her as a “lioness” and a “fighter” who “lived her life to the fullest.”
Faye has previously come up about her mother’s cancer diagnosis, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019 and then lung cancer a year later.
On Monday’s Loose Women, the singer joined the panel in the ITV studio, where they discussed mammograms in light of Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York’s breast cancer diagnosis.
Following the discussion of the presenters, Faye joined them at the table, where Charlene White stated to her, ‘It’s been a really terrible year for you, hasn’t it?’
Mentioning the conversation that they’d just had about the duchess, the host continued: ‘Your mum went through that, and then unfortunately it returned as lung cancer and she passed last year, didn’t she?’
‘Yeah, it’s nearly been a year already. So I’m going through all of the firsts that you do,’ the performer responded.
Faye, who is playing Maggie Jones in the UK tour of 42nd Street this summer, felt emotional at this moment.
Having opened up about experiencing perimenopausal symptoms in the past few years, she shared: ‘All of the firsts that you go through, and it’s a real void without mum.’
She then blew a kiss into the air above her, adding: ‘Love ya.’
‘It’s okay,’ Charlene, 43, said as she reached across the table to hold Faye’s hand. ‘It’s OK.’
Faye added: ‘I think because my mum was my biggest critic and my biggest fan, and she was the reason that I do shows or I’m in the business, and just not having her on the end of the phone. It’s a tough one.’
During an appearance on Loose Women, the former Strictly Come Dancing judge acknowledged that she was concerned about the influence her perimenopausal symptoms would have on her ability to perform.
‘I have had symptoms for a good sort of three years but they all sort of became very very, apparent last December and I had the fear of going back to work because of all of these things,’ she said.
‘Brain fog… imagine going on stage and you just stop, you can’t remember your lines. Physical things that happen to you as well and you know, getting into costumes and things like that, and the anxiety I had…
‘What was really interesting was, I was getting butterflies and I couldn’t really realise why. Physical shaking, like I would in an audition, that sort of real quivering. I was thinking, am I going to get back on stage again? Is this going to stop me?’
Loose Women airs weekdays from 12.30pm on ITV.
