Vicky McClure has opened up about her heartbreaking family battle with dementia - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Celebrity Vicky McClure has opened up about her heartbreaking family battle with dementia By You Magazine - May 1, 2019 Dementia is a disease that effects not only its victim but the loved ones around them. Line of Duty star Vicky McClure reminded us all of that in a recent interview as she opened up about her late grandmother’s struggle with the illness. Vicky, who lost her grandmother to dementia in 2015, appeared on ITV’s This Morning on Tuesday where she told hosts Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby about the ‘extremely sad’ reality of the disease. Getty Images Explaining her family’s experience, she said: ‘When anything hits your family or your real life, you need to know everything. It was like, where do we go from here? It was tricky. I wanted to do as much as I could.’ The BAFTA award-winning actress recalled that her grandmother, named Iris, deteriorated towards the end of her life, so much so that she ‘wasn’t able to leave the house.’ However, she would always respond to her daughter’s (Vicky’s mum) singing voice. ‘My mum would sing and grandmother would spark up,’ Vicky continued. ‘You’d get a glimmer of hope.’ Our Dementia Choir. 2nd May 8pm @BBCOne ? pic.twitter.com/78W1UpaUCi - Vicky McClure (@Vicky_McClure) April 20, 2019 This experience inspired Vicky, who plays Detective Sergeant Kate Fleming in the hit BBC crime drama, to support the Dementia Choir – a charity she has teamed up with for her new two-part documentary, Our Dementia Choir. The show premiers on BBC One on Thursday 2 May at 8pm and sees Vicky highlighting the important link between music and memory for people who have dementia. With the help of specialists from the fields of medicine, music therapy and performance, Vicky will form a 20-member choir who will then go on to perform in public. Speaking about the show, Vicky said: ‘Yeah obviously it’s extremely sad [to have dementia] in my family but the Dementia Choir was emotional because I could see the choir doing those incredible things. She added: ‘Music can change your mood. I’ve had loads of brain scans. The results are outstanding.’ RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR 50 of the best celebrity Halloween costumes of all time Shirley Ballas ‘ Strictly gave me back my hope’ Davina McCall discusses how men can help women going through the menopause Popular in Celebrity TV chef Gino D Acampo on Sardinia Sophia Loren and scary salads May 25, 2017 The Evergreen Goddess Exercise guru Diana Moran on looking fit and July 10, 2017 More more Julianne Moore November 13, 2017 Author Jill Mansell on designer notebooks commissioning art and the family January 16, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES Kelly Hoppen on vodka vintage finds and being a April 4, 2018 ‘ I have no regrets’ Millie Mackintosh on divorce debt and reuniting May 20, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES TV presenter and tennis player Annabel Croft shares her July 1, 2018 Stella Parton ‘ Dolly and I have always been close’ August 12, 2018 Anna Friel on getting jeered in the street shared parenting with September 23, 2018 Queen of primetime Charlotte Riley on juggling rising stardom with pregnancy October 21, 2018 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved