Sarah Lancashire says menopause left her unable to remember why she was in shop
Award-winning actress and national treasure, Sarah Lancashire is having a brilliant week after scooping the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards last Tuesday. But behind the scenes the Happy Valley legend was struggling with menopause symptoms resulting in the 58-year-old using two fans while in the audience.
Sarah has opened up about the menopause in a recent interview with and is definitely not holding back about the truth of her experience, confessing that she recently forgot entirely what she wanted while in the supermarket.
"I'm having the most terrible menopause," the former star of Coronation Street told the Mail on Sunday. "I've got brain fog. I was in Sainsbury's the other day, and I found myself just stood there in the aisle and could not remember what I was there for. It just comes over you all of a sudden. I can't remember things that happened 30 years ago either."
Sarah's vast career in TV drama was paid tribute to, with contributions from her co-stars at the NTAs, which were held at the O2 on September 5, but Ms Lancashire, who beat off competition from her Happy Valley co-star James Norton to also lift a Special Recognition Award, said she needed to use the two fans 'pretty much on my face the whole time' as it was so hot inside the huge venue.
Sarah looks great collecting her award at the NTAs (James Veysey/REX/Shutterstock for NTA)The actress shared her secret of keeping cool on camera at the glitzy awards, which saw Happy Valley win Best Returning Drama: 'I brought one of my closest friends with me and his job was to keep an eye out for the cameras and if it looked like they were going to pan across to us, then he'd let me know so I could hide them."
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She also told the publication that while she was currently using a HRT gel, it wasn't "great" so she was planning on trying the patches out. Sarah, who is mum to two grown-up sons from her marriage to music teacher Gary Hargreaves, and a teenage boy with current husband, former BBC chief Peter Salmon, said when it came to issues like the menopause, there needed to be change: "I think things are changing and they have needed to change for a very long time. Evolution is slow and we need to catch up."
It wasn't only the menopause Sarah, who found fame as Rovers Return barmaid Raquel Wolstenhulme in the early 1990s on Coronation Street, was open about, she also spoke a bit more about her mental health issues in the past and how he diagnosis of clinical depression held her back somewhat. She said: "I have my good and my bad patches…In my early days, depression did inhibit me because I was too debilitated and terrified to tell anyone why I couldn't get on a train from Manchester for auditions in London. I fully believed I'd lose work if I admitted to it.
"Tranquillisers were the worst thing for it and I ended up in a terrible mess. My 20s were a write-off."
Talking then about the possible return of Happy Valley, which many fans are calling for, the star put her foot down that three series and leaving Catherine Cawood et al on a high was the best way to end the show, which broke records when 7.5 million watched its dramatic finale in February.
She added: "'The story was complete... there is a danger you carry on and on and it loses its potency. This way we go out on top."
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