Linda Robson has recalled the heart stopping moment she realised that she had forgotten to pick up her grandchildren from school.
The 63-year-old Birds of a Feather legend has three children of her own and two grandchildren beyond that – and she occasionally shares wholesome family photos with her youngest family members on social media.
The actress and talkshow panelist regularly cares for her two grandchildren for her daughter, Lauren, looking after the girls three days per week.
However, she has confessed she once completely forgot to collected her beloved granddaughters from school one afternoon due to a mix up with timings.
Realising her error, Linda says she flew into an immediate panic, burst into tears, and raced off to rectify her terrible mistake.
Opening up to her Loose Women co-stars, Linda explained: "In my head I was picking them up at 3:45. But at 3:15 I was indoors.
"I had just got out the bath, I was getting dressed because I was going to a premiere last night and I got a phone call from Lauren going 'Why aren't you at the school? You were supposed to be picking them up at 3:15!'"
"I went into panic mode and I couldn't get anyone to give me a lift so I had to run to the school, and I'm not the fittest woman in the world.
"I was legging it up the road, crying on my way there.
"I was thinking 'Oh my god, they're gonna be standing in the playground on their own, no one's there, it's freezing cold’.”
Fortunately for Linda – and more importantly the girls – they had not been completely abandoned by school staff.
"They were sitting in the office, with the secretary, Martine, and the caretaker, and they went 'Don't worry, they're fine.'"
Linda says her grandchildren asked her why she in tears, and she explained to them: "Because I thought you were there in the playground freezing cold."
In another recent candid moment on Loose Women, Linda opened up about a tragic miscarriage she suffered after welcoming her first two children.
She revealed: "After I had Lauren and then Louis, I got pregnant again for the third time. I was really excited about it and had my scans and everything was right in the first three months, scans and everything, and then I started to feel a bit strange.
"You know, when you just know that it's not the same as the other pregnancies and something's not quite right there. So I rang the hospital and asked if I could come in and have another scan.
"I got there and they scanned me and the nurse went to me, 'I'm just gonna have to call somebody in to see you' so I thought 'Oh no, that's not sounding good'."
The doctor told Linda they couldn't find a heartbeat and said to go home and return to the hospital the following day.
She explained: "That was a really hard day, like going home that night knowing that I'd have to go in and have suction the next day."
