Amy Huberman has revealed she was left "scarlet" after she mistakenly thought a retail worker was sympathising with her after her father’s death.
The actress was left devastated after the loss of her dad Harold three months ago. The 84-year-old died after losing his battle with Parkinson’s disease.
But Amy saw the funny side to her grieving process after she thought a retail worker was sympathising with her in a shop - but was instead asking her if she needed help with sizes.
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She said: “I was only thinking about this last night; the highs and lows of everything with grief.
“I remember being in a shop only shortly after Dad had died. I was just… this bruise, this moving human bruise walking around.
“And this lovely girl came up to me in the shop and said, ‘Oh hi, I just want to see if you are OK?’
“And I went, ‘Oh my God, that’s so nice. It’s just been such a hard few weeks and I’m glad he’s not struggling anymore.’
“And she’s like, ‘Oh right, I just want to know are you OK for sizes?’
“So then I felt like, ‘the absolute notions on me!’
“But I just knew that my dad would have creased himself laughing. Obviously, I still think about that not and go scarlet for myself.”
Amy, who has just released her first children’s book, The Day I Got Trapped In My Brain, opened up about missing her father’s infectious laugh.
“My dad had such an infectious laugh. I wouldn’t have ever spent time in my dad’s company without joking. He was very self-deprecating in a very funny way so that’s what I think of when I think of him,” she told the Rte Guide.
But she admitted losing her father still feels “surreal”.
I am in this weird position, that I was talking to my mum about; I am very conscious of talking so much about it. I still don’t really know where I am with grief but then I am doing press right in the middle of this and I can’t avoid it.
“I don’t know how I feel about that. I am trying not to overthink it.
“At the same time, I am very happy to talk about my dad. The thing about it is, I had a great relationship with him.
“I love him and I miss him and I guess there’s nothing about that that I feel I can’t talk about.”
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