
Loose Women’s Judi Love was overwhelmed with emotion after opening up about her mother’s death.
The Strictly Come Dancing icon, 42, lost her mother to dementia, which causes a deterioration in memory, in 2009 and has opened up a lot in the past about her experiences caring for her mum before her death.
During a special segment titled ‘Life before Loose’ reflected on the highs and lows she faced growing up during Wednesday’s edition of the daytime programme.
After presenters Kaye Adams, Jane Moore and Gloria Hunniford played the montage of Judi’s stellar career she burst into tears.
‘It’s overwhelming, it’s joyous tears,’ she said.
The star later discussed her mum’s dementia and recalled the moment that sparked her career as a comedian.

‘She passed in a beautiful way. We call it travelling – on your way to death,’ she said.
‘I was doing an imitation of my Aunty, and we call it travelling, my mum’s at the stage where she’s travelling.
‘So her eyes were closed and she’s taking deep breaths, and that’s what usually happens your hearing is the last thing to go.
‘I was big belly pregnant as you would call it, and she laughed, and everyone was like “oh my god.”‘

She continued: ‘What else could be the greatest thing, and if I can do that, I can do comedy.’
‘That was the push.’
The TV personality later explained how she used comedy as a form of escape.
‘I was a chubby girl and for me, that came from trauma,’ she said.
‘When I was at school, being popular was making everyone laugh, facial expressions and just being about that vibe and that got me through. Comedy was a way of me navigating through emotions I was feeling.’
Loose Women airs weekdays at 12pm on ITV.