Charlie Gard's parents revealed watching BBC1 drama Best Interests has been a 'real punch to the gut'.
Connie Yates and Chris Gard became embroiled in a heartbreaking legal and medical battle over their son Charlie, who suffered from a rare genetic condition.
He was born on August 4, 2016, but became ill at just two-months-old.
The pair tearfully gave up their legal battle, which had them asking for the right to take Charlie out of the hospital for potentially life-saving treatment, in July 2017 as his condition had deteriorated.
Charlie died on July 28, 2017, a week before his first birthday.
And now, the parents said they relived their trauma after watching Best Interests – which follows a family struggling with the decision to withdraw care from their terminally ill child, echoing Charlie's heartbreaking story.
The parents in the show are played by Michael Sheen and Sharon Horgan.
The four-part series sees the couple, Andrew and Nicci, get into a legal battle over their daughter's right to die.
"Some of the scenes really knocked me for six," 37-year-old Connie revealed to The Sun.
"There are so many moments that really were just like looking in a mirror, it was a real punch in the gut to watch."
They added that the scenes of the characters standing on the court steps "brought it all flooding back" to them.
Connie and Chris recently claimed they attempted to contact the production company of the drama to offer insight but it declined.
"I said, 'Let’s record it and watch it when we’re ready'. But seeing it this week takes you back with everything we went through with Charlie," Connie told Mirror.
Charlie was treated at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital, where he was diagnosed with mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome.
The family set up a GoFundMe page, raising £1.3 million, and gave a petition with 350,000 signatures supporting their case to GOSH.
Doctors told the parents they required any external treatment to be sanctioned by a judge. There were five legal cases from the High Court to the European Court of Human Rights.
At each turn, judges agreed Charlie’s life support should be turned off and he should be allowed to die with dignity.
The couple had wanted to take their son to the US for nucleoside bypass therapy but GOSH said Charlie had irreversible brain damage.
Judges ruled it was in Charlie’s best interests to die because he may be suffering and the proposed experimental treatment was "futile".
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