Charlie Lawson spread his late wife’s ashes earlier this year – nine years after her passing.
The ‘Coronation Street’ actor admits he "still misses" his second wife Lesley Bond, who he called Ellie, following her death in 2010 aged 55 after battling alcohol addiction.
And he recently took a trip to Ardnamurchan Peninsula in south-west Scotland with his current partner Debbie Stanley to scatter her remains after she told him they "need to do this".
He said: "Debbie instigated it and told me, ‘We need to do this’.
"We went to the beach Ellie had chosen along with the dog we shared, Seamus. It was very moving, a fitting end in a beautiful part of the world.
"If there’s a heaven, she deserves to be there because she had a very unpleasant life. She was too good for this place. The poor wee soul was too damaged to be here. I still miss her.
"Debbie is my girl, but Lesley has a special part of my heart and always will have. I’m proud of Debbie for doing what she did and I’ll never forget it."
The 59-year-old star – who plays Jim McDonald in ‘Corrie’ – had some "really great times" with Lesley, who died of hypothermia following a fall, but the couple had to go their separate ways when she became a "raging alcoholic".
Speaking to Sunday Life, he added: "I fell in love with Lesley, but she was very, very ill. A few years back – almost eight years – she had a horrible end. She’d become a raging alcoholic and we’d had to separate.
"There was no one else involved and we still loved each other very much, but it was becoming dangerous to be with her. When Lesley was bad, she was bad, but there were some really great times."
Charlie Lawson spreads late wife’s ashes 9 years after her death
