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Privacy NoticeGrace Dent has emotionally opened up about losing her mum in 2021. The I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! star spoke during an interview on ITV’s Lorraine about losing her beloved mum and how she comforted her in her final weeks and months. Grace, 51, appeared on the chat show to talk about her new book, Comfort Eating, which looks the restaurant critic’s own comfort foods, the memories these foods are tied to along with tributes to her late parents. She told host Lorraine Kelly that feels that “food and the saddest times in life go hand in hand”, to which the presenter agreed.
Grace opened up about her mum’s death
“This is a funny book, but it was written around the time I lost both of my parents. There’s nothing unusual here, I’m at that stage of life where your parents go and you know, food and caring, was the main thing during that point. And I think it is for so many people,” Grace candidly told Lorraine. She went on to speak about the significance food can have towards the end of a person’s life. Grace also spoke about sweet treat she and her late mum would enjoy together during her final months. Grace continued: “It ends up being trays delivered to beds and chats about the time you’ve got left. And, the portions getting smaller and smaller, and trying to find things on the supermarket shelves that people can still eat. And I always say one of the last things with my mum was those little individual trifles. “We loved trifle, we loved cake, we loved eating cake together. We spent our entire life on an 1,000-calorie diet trying to get ‘beach body ready’, until Friday when it was chippy tea and it was all down the pan again! Our last weeks and months together, it was just delivering those bits of love.”
The food critic opened up to Lorraine Kelly
Grace lost her mum in 2021 and has been open about the grief she’s experienced. Speaking on Kate Thornton’s White Wine Question Time, Grace previously spoke openly about being there during her mum’s final moments and how she feels like she’s “trying to work out” who she is now. “We were all together as a family up to the point where she died. And I just think that, if I am to look back on my life, I’m never going to regret that,” she told Kate. She also added: “It’s a really strange part in my life. I’m at that point where every day, I think of something, I just want to ring her. Now she’s gone, I’m trying to work out who I am now. You start to realise that so much of what you do comes with calling them to tell them because it’ll make them happy.”Story SavedYou can find this story in  My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnGrace Dent
