Claire King breaks down in tears as she opened up about her husband’s affair with Emmerdale co-star and her best friend’s death
SOAP star stalwart Claire King was left sobbing after re-living both the pain of her husband's high-profile affair and her best friend's death in a harrowing new TV show.
The actress couldn't hide her emotions during a particularly traumatic episode of Channel 5's In Therapy where she was forced to re-live pal Fiona's tragic passing following her brief battle with bladder cancer.
The Coronation Street and Emmerdale favourite dabbed tears from her eyes as she took a painful trip down memory lane and explained how her former school-friend had jetted overseas for a life in Greece.
Talking candidly about her shock death in 2010 to counsellor Mandy Saligari,on the episode to be broadcast today, Claire said: "We were thick as thieves, we did everything together.
"It's been really hard, I've put up a big wall. She was my best friend.
"It's the worst loss that I've ever experienced, and I haven't dealt with it and haven't talked about it."
Claire, 54, added she felt "vulnerable" letting her emotions loose.
Yet once she was on a roll, she opened up about the turmoil of ex husband Peter Amory's affair with her former Dales co-star Samantha Giles.
While Peter was filming in Yorkshire, Claire was in London shooting scenes for ITV drama Bad Girls
She weeped how "every b***** knew" and added: "I suspected but everyone knew who because it happened in my house, in the local pub, the workplace.
"I did suspect and I did suspect who but officially I was the last to know."
Meanwhile the fans' favourite, who played Kim Tate in Emmerdale, has previously confessed how learning of her former husband's infidelity prompted a battle with depression and alcohol.
Speaking about the troubles in her 10-year marriage on Channel 5’s In Therapy, the Mirror reports she said: “He liked a drink but he was also gambling as well. I mean big gambling.
“I knew he always gambled but not in that way. Lose your house money, lose everything money.
“I was £9,000 short of paying my mortgage off and then suddenly, poof. It was just horrible and it was draining.”
Claire had been blessed with a string of high-profile roles in the competitive industry, but reveals as she got older work started to dwindle and coupled with the rising debts, she turned to alcohol.
She revealed: “Hitting 40, having a divorce and not having children and getting deeper into debt. To the point where I sold my wardrobe, dresses, everything, even collectors’ items, as I had no money. I thought, ‘God, am I ever going to work again?’
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