Yahoo News Emmerdale's Amy Walsh flooded with support as she breaks down in tears over being 'rubbish'
Emmerdale star Amy Walsh has been flooded with support after she was seen breaking down in tears over being away from her family to be able to do the job she loves. Fans know the actress for playing Tracy Robinson in the ITV soap, having joined back in 2014.
Amy reprised her role in the Dales last year after taking a break to welcome her first child, daughter Bonnie, into the world with her former soap star husband Toby Alexander-Smith.
It means Amy, 37, and former EastEnders star Toby, 33, live with their two-year-old daughter in Leeds, where the show is filmed, and she's now opened up about living away from other members of her family, who are based in London, while appearing in new ITVBe reality series, Drama Queens.
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During the latest episode of the show, which follows several soap stars behind the scenes of both their work and day-to-day lives, Amy enjoying a meal out with her husband and their daughter ahead of visiting her mother Diane Walsh in the capital city on her own.
Mentioning having relocated to Leeds in recent years, Toby began the conversation by saying: "Since we've moved away from London ..." Amy reacted to him: "That's been so hard, hasn't it?" Her husband said: "It's been tough for you, I think, being away from your family."
Amy continued: "That's literally the only downside to my job, isn't it? I'm so close to my mum - like I can't believe I don't see her for weeks on end. I'm gonna cry ..." Toby stated in response to her: "She's amazing though, that's why." Amy was then seen in tears as she discussed how she felt living away from relatives, including her Girls Aloud star sibling Kimberley Walsh.
She said: "I didn't like it at Christmas when it felt like she [her mum] didn't know Bonnie as well even though she did. But before she was seeing her every day." Toby told her: "It's totally normal to feel like that." Amy then commented: "I'm so busy and constantly feel like a rubbish sister, a rubbish friend, a rubbish daughter and all that. It sounds so dramatic but it's just ... it's actually juggling my work, the distance and now being a mum."
Toby offered reassurance by saying: "But all those people understand that!" Amy told him: "No, I know. It just doesn't help me like feeling sad about it." Speaking in a confessional, she added: "It's funny with Toby because he's so good emotionally at being there for me. It's just really important for me to have that sounding board."
Amy was later seen meeting with her mother Diane and explained: "I had to go down to London for some work commitments so I managed to very conveniently tie it in with seeing my gorgeous mum. And that was just amazing because I don't think in the two years that I've had Bonnie I have seen my mum on my own."
Whilst at a restaurant together, the pair discussed Amy living away from Dianne as well as her older sisters Sally Walsh, 46, and Kimberley, 42. Amy shared: "It's a hard one, I was talking to Toby the other day actually, because we feel so settled and so happy to be back in Leeds but then it comes with, obviously, the sadness that whenever I tell you or my sisters, like, that I'm happy living in Leeds, you're all like 'how happy? How long is this gonna be?'"
Diane said: "I know, Amy, but, like, you couldn't live down here and work up there, could you?" Amy said: "No, exactly." She went on to say that her mother is "so good" at being "practical about it," adding: "You never actually make me feel bad."
Addressing the comment, Diane said: "I can't be putting that on you." Amy continued: "It's a small price to pay for doing a job that you love. Like, I could be near you, but not happy. Like waitress-ing still or ... juggling a million other jobs just to get by. None of us would be happy with that, would we?" So [I've] just gotta take it while it's there. I just wish you would move back to Leeds and then it'd all be alright."
And as a clip of Amy and Toby's chat appeared on social media, fans were quick to show their support. @lynnieq5 said: "This show has made these ladies realistic. They’re all doing a fab job juggling."
@joanneroberts818644 shared: "It’s so refreshing to know, that even the rich and famous struggle with the day to day situations that most women/parents do, and that they aren’t infallible." @mychronicillnessesandme added: "Been feeling like a rubbish Mum lately, thank you for this!"
