Tragedy of Kate's mother

ACTRESS Kate Beckinsale has revealed that her mother Judy Loe was undergoing surgery to have more children at the time of the death of her father, Porridge star Richard Beckinsale.

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He died from a heart attack aged just 31 in 1979 when Kate was five.

Underworld star Kate, who has an older half-sister, fellow actress Samantha, from her father’s first marriage to

Margaret Bradley, recalls: “I used to pester my mother to have another baby when my father was still alive. She ended

up having an eighthour operation to unblock her tubes and things like that.

“The operation was a success but my father died while she was having it, so it was really ironic, terrible timing.”

Judy was being treated in hospital when her husband died in his sleep at their Berkshire home.

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