Kym Marsh was provided with a counsellor for her harrowing still birth storyline on ‘Coronation Street’.
The 42-year-old star admits she was putting herself "into [her] own past" while shooting the scenes after she and her ex-husband Jamie Lomas’ son Archie died just a few seconds after he was born 18 weeks prematurely, and in the ITV soap plot her character Michelle Connor lost her baby son Ruairi, who was stillborn.
She said: "When I did the storyline for ‘Coronation Street’, that’s the closest I have come to being back in the room.
"ITV provided a counsellor, who gave me grounding exercises to do to bring me back to reality after I had been putting myself into my own past."
Kym – who has daughter Polly, seven, with ‘Hollyoaks’ star Jamie, and children David, 23, and Emilie, 20, with former partner Dave Cunliffe – admitted she has always tried to make something "positive" out of the heart-breaking times in her life.
She added to the Daily Mirror newspaper: "I have been through my fair share of heartache – losing a child is something terrible – but I have tried to bring positives from it."
In February, Kym revealed she cannot have any more kids after she underwent a "procedure" to curb her fertility.
She said: "Polly was seven weeks premature but OK and at my six-week check-up the consultant said, ‘Let’s talk about you having more children,’ and I told him I didn’t want any more.
"I didn’t want to go through the trauma again because there would never be any guarantee it would be fine.
"And not just for me, but for my children and my parents – everyone suffered.
"I had a procedure to stop all the women’s problems I was having and that means I can no longer have a child. I took that decision five years ago and I made peace with it then. I’ve got three beautiful children and an angel."
Kym Marsh’s Corrie counselling
