Hollyoaks star Lucy-Jo Hudson has opened up about 'feeling sad' as her daughter left home to go on a dream holiday with her Coronation Street star dad.
The soap actress, who plays Donna-Marie Quinn in Channel Four show Hollyoaks, shares daughter Sienna with Alan Halsall, who plays Tyrone Dobbs in the ITV soap. Lucy-Jo, who previously admitted with co-parenting with an ex can be 'challenging', met Alan on the set of Corrie - in which Lucy-Jo played Katy Harris - all the way back in 2002
While Alan is famed for having played mechanic Tyrone for the best part of two decades, it has been 20 years since Lucy-Jo played troubled teenager Katy in Weatherfield. Her dramatic time on the cobbles included her forbidden relationship with older man Martin Platt, which led to her murdering her own dad Tommy with a wrench, her diabetic diagnosis and in her departing storyline she took her own life.
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After seven years of marriage, having tied the knot in 2009, the former couple announced that they had separated back in 2016 - saying at the time they would remain close friends. However on that occasion they reconciled a month later before splitting again in 2018.
Lucy went on to find love with Lewis Devine, whom she first met when they appeared together in pantomime in 2017, and the couple share a son together while Alan has been in a relationship with former COrrie star Tisha Merry for a number of years.
Taking to Instagram, Lucy-Jo shared pictures of herself and Sienna at her recent 40th birthday party. The pair looked gorgeous in sparking dresses and nine-year-old Sienna couldn't hide her smile as Lucy-Jo planted a kiss on her cheek. "So my big girl Sienna-Rae, has gone away for 2 weeks with her dad to Florida," the mum-of-two penned.
"I'm soooooo excited for her, cos I know she is gonna absolutely love it…. but if I’m totally honest…. I feel so sad that I won’t be creating these memories with her, and god am I going to miss her. Such mixed emotions." She then added: "Ahhh its so hard isn’t it? (If you know you know)," alongside a broken heart emoji.
She went on to heap praise on her little girl and how her going away will impact her younger brother. "She is such a beautiful soul and she is so close to her little brother who I know is gonna really struggle with her not being around, especially now he’s getting older, he’s so much more aware of her not being there when she goes to her dads," Lucy-Jo shared.
"But @lewis_devine1987 and I have got plans for Carter, to keep him entertained and we’ll help him through the next 2 weeks of mixed emotions. Lew is gonna miss her too as she has a really gorgeous bond with him! He’ll never replace her dad but he is a brilliant male role model in her life! Ahhhh I know it’s only 2 weeks but why does that feel like a lifetime?"
Opening up about co-parenting, Lucy-Jo typed: "It’s been almost 6 years of me having to share my Sienna, and you’d think I’d be used to it by now but I’m not! I cope a lot better than I did, as I know it’s just a part of being in a separated family, you have to get used it, don’t you? But it really doesn’t get any easier does it?"
She rounded off her post by saying: "Have the best time Sienna baby. I love and miss you already," before she was quickly supported in the comments as her fans and followers also shared their stories of being part of blended families and co-parenting with former partners.
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