The Emmerdale star who plays Gabby has revealed how working on the soap helped her cope when she tragically lost her dad. It became a case of life mirroring her art for actor Rosie Bentham, just over two years after acting out a storyline where her character suffers the loss of a father.
Rosie's on-screen character Gabby Thomas lost her dad Ashley, who was a vicar and suffered from dementia. Rosie, then 15, acted out the tragic scenes in 2017. Then a couple of years later, Rosie’s father John, also a vicar, died of a pulmonary embolism – a blood clot, the Mirror has reported.
Rosie, now 20, said: “I was doing the whole playing grief and then the next minute I’m actually grieving. Everyone was there for me and I had some time off. I had a text from the cast seeing how I was. Work was a saving grace in the sense there was something I still loved to do and was passionate about. Grieving can go wrong for teenagers.
