Telly and theatre darling Sheridan Smith has been keeping busy during lockdown – not only has she had a baby, she’s made a documentary about it, too.
The 39-year-old actress and her partner Jamie welcomed baby Billy at the height of the pandemic, but Sheridan’s biggest worry was that the mental health issues she experienced when her dad died back in 2016 could come back to haunt her in pregnancy or after the baby was born. ‘My dad died and I think things that I hadn’t dealt with caused the big explosion, mentally.
It was like a bomb went off in my head,’ she says. ‘Now I feel like I’ve got a second chance at life. 'It’s such a huge thing to have a baby.