DENISE Welch was so desperate for her life to end at the height of her depression that she prayed for the plane she was travelling on with son Matt Healy to crash.
The Loose Women star, 62, said The 1975 frontman Matt was just one-year-old during the episode, which occurred on a flight to Australia to visit then-husband Tim Healy, 69, on the set of a BBC TV series.
Hollyoaks actress Denise told Laura Dockrill, 34, on her Zombiemum podcast: "I had made the decision because he was missing his child so much that I would fly to Australia. "The night before I went, this massive depression came on.
I cannot tell you what it was like to go the airport and get on that plane with this depression. "When I was in the air - I told Matthew this years.
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