BBC EastEnders icon 'sobbed' as she asks 'why am I here' in heartbreaking admission

Cheryl Fergison, who is best known for her role as Heather Trott in EastEnders, has spoken about using a food bank after struggling with debt

Cheryl Fergison, who is best known for her role as Heather Trott in EastEnders, has spoken about using a food bank after struggling with debt.

Cheryl Fergison joined Cat Deeley and Dermot O’Leary on This Morning to talk about spiralling into debt.

Cheryl played Heather Trott in the BBC soap for five years and became an EastEnders icon but was forced to turn to her local food bank earlier this year.

She told the ITV hosts: “My life sort of paralleled her a little bit in some things, including things like going to the food bank, that’s the sort of thing that Heather would have done, I’m sure.”

She continued: “So, it’s weird to know that what I portrayed is something that is happening to millions. It shouldn’t be happening but it is.”

Cheryl played Heather Trott in the BBC soap for five years (
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BBC)

Describing the first time she visited the food bank, she said: “They were little angels… It didn’t matter if they knew me or not, they never, ever showed it. They sat me down, gave me a cup of tea [and] I started sobbing.

“I sobbed and thought, ‘Why am I here? I’ve been on the television, I’ve been in people’s front rooms but I am actually here now’. You hear these stories, and I’ve reported on these stories, and I’ve done these stories, but I am actually here now.

“Then they filled my bags up with food, and they asked me if I had an animal… I said, ‘Yeah, I’ve got a dog, Rosie’ and they said, ‘Okay, well she needs to eat, so we’ll get some food’…

“I think this is the bit that got me, I was sat there with a cup of tea, with four or five bags of food and the lady said, ‘Oh, we’ve got all these tins of Celebrations and chocolates – what we’ll do is we put some in bags, and you can go home and have a cup of tea, because there’s tea bags in there.”

Cheryl Fergison joined Cat Deeley and Dermot O’Leary on This Morning to talk about spiralling into debt (
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@cherylfergison1/instagram)
On finding herself in debt, Cheryl explained: “I think that’s a perception for everybody, that when you’re on the telly, you’re earning loads of money all the time, and it’s great.

“I was earning a good wage there [but] I’ve always lived in council estates, so I’d never really had money. We’d never really been brought up with money, we’d never managed money very well as a family.

“When I was in EastEnders, you suddenly get this money, and I thought, ‘I’m going to treat my friends and my family to holidays and things that they never had’… It was kind of frittered away.”

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