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Dame Barbara Windsor moves to care home as Alzheimer's worsens
Aug 3, 2020
Dame Barbara Windsor has moved to a care home in London due to her advancing dementia.
Her husband Scott Mitchell told The Sun the former EastEnders star has been there since mid-July.
He said: "I feel I'm on an emotional rollercoaster. I walk around, trying to keep busy, then burst in to tears. It feels like a bereavement."
Dame Barbara, 82, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2014 and her condition has worsened during lockdown.
Image caption Dame Barbara appeared in EastEnders until 2016
Scott added: "It's always been my biggest fear, that one day I would have to take her somewhere and she'd be thinking, 'Why would he do this to me?'
"That fear has become a reality. It's something I never wanted."
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Speaking about the day he left Dame Barbara at the home, Mitchell said: "I'll never forget the feeling of emptiness. I felt sick in the pit of my stomach that I'd left her. I still feel like that.
"By the time I got home and went to bed, I just felt desperately sad. It's been 27 years since we met and we spent so much of that time in each other's company. It feels like another chapter has gone."
The couple have been married for 20 years.
Scott said he had tried to make her room look homely with family and showbiz pictures, including one of the actress receiving her damehood from the Queen.
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