Joanna Page shares husband's touching response to 'raw' tell-all book
The Gavin and Stacey star appeared on James Martin's Saturday Morning to discuss her new book.
Joanna Page reveals her husband cried reading her autobiography
Gavin and Stacey legend Joanna Page appeared on James Martin's Saturday Morning to talk about her new autobiography, Lush: My Story - From Swansea to Stacey and Everything in Between.
The Welsh actress is a mother-of-four and she is married to actor James Thornton, with the pair having both appeared in the 1999 TV serial David Copperfield.
Page said she wanted her debut book to be "brutally honest", adding: "I'm raw, I'm honest, I don't pull any punches, and there were many times where I just thought, 'pull it, I can't, it's too personal'.
"And then 'You know what, stuff it, I'm going to write it, I'm shoving everything into it'. I'm sure there's going to be lots of moments where mum goes 'Oh, Joanna, did you really have to write about that?'
"But I thought, it's me." She also recalled the moment she unveiled the book to her family.
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The star admitted her children didn't know anything at all about the book, adding: "My husband said to me, 'Am I in it?'
"And I said 'Oh yes, just you wait and see, I have got a whole chapter dedicated to conceiving our last baby'."
James Martin asked: "Is he OK with that?"
Joanna cheekily replied: "It's too late because it's all in print now but the kids were saying to me 'Are we in it?'
"And do you know what is really lovely? When I first got the book and I gave them each a copy and wrote a message in for each one of them.
"When they opened it and they read the dedication which is to them, my husband read the acknowledgements out loud.
"When I get to the bit where it says 'Thank you to my family' and I start writing about him and the fact he got me through writing it.
"And he looked after the children and just gave me back massages and French martinis when I was feeling like I couldn't carry on, he was crying as he was reading it, it was lovely."
In a separate interview with The Mirror, Joanna gushed about her husband as she revealed the secret to their long and happy marriage.
She said: “He makes me laugh and I love his personality. We have the same views and ideas of how we want to live our lives.
"We love being together all the time. But you don’t get through 25 years without ups and downs. Of course we bicker and have arguments and go to bed not speaking, but we always wake up in the morning and never carry the argument on.”
James Martin's Saturday Morning airs on ITV
