The former EastEnders star shared the emotional impact of rushing her daughter Joanie to hospital after a serious school accident.Image credit (Natalie Cassidy)
Natalie Cassidy has opened up about a deeply distressing experience involving her nine-year-old daughter’s emergency hospitalisation. The ‘EastEnders’ star, best known for her role as trumpet-playing drama-magnet Sonia Fowler, revealed she rushed her daughter Joanie to A&E after the child broke her arm in a school accident.Cassidy spoke about the harrowing details of the incident, which occurred mere weeks after Joanie had undergone surgery on the same arm following a previous injury. She shares Joanie with her fiancé Marc Humphreys. She also has an older daughter, 15-year-old Eliza, from a previous relationship.
The traumatic incident at the school
Cassidy explained the circumstances surrounding the accident with emotional honesty. She described how she and her family had been planning to spend quality time together at home. “I’d done a little bit of work in the morning at home. [Marc] went outside, put the paddling pool up, cut all the grass – thinking we’re going to have a few days, like a mini holiday, at home. And then the phone rang,” she recounted on her Life with Nat podcast.The call brought devastating news. “Joanie’s broken her arm again. Same arm – smashed to pieces. General anaesthetic, same operation,” Cassidy said, describing the injury in stark terms. The incident occurred when Joanie slipped in the hall before PE at school.
