A woman who took drastic action in a desperate attempt to see her dying mum in the middle of lockdown has taken her experiences to the stage.
Alexandra Spencer-Jones, 38, disguised herself as a cleaner and even a nurse in order to see her mum Heather in the months leading to her death at Darent Valley Hospital in Kent in May 2020.
She said: "Darent Valley had a firm policy of no visitation, so I was only allowed 10 minutes on an iPad with my mum each day. But I couldn't really cope with being separated. We're an incredibly close family, it's just me, mum and dad. As an actor I started trying to dress up as a nurse, a cleaner, to get into the hospital. Once I got right up to the ward, but I didn't get in. They caught me.
