Cilla Black tells Piers Morgan of tragic loss

October 8, 2009 by Baby Chums
Filed under: Celebrity Baby News, News, Pregnancy

Cilla Black, 66, will appear on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories on ITV1 on Saturday at 10pm. During the interview she will reveal how she suffered the loss of her baby girl born prematurely 34 years ago.

Her baby daughter, Ellen, died just two hours after birth and regardless of the passing years Cilla Black tells how she still feels the loss. Described the experience in 1975 as ‘awful’.

Cilla’s husband and manager Bobby were already parents to eldest sons Robert, five, and Ben, one, when the singer fell pregnant with their eagerly anticipated girl.

The Liverpudlian star was 27 weeks pregnant when she went into early labour with Ellen, who suffered from lung complications.

Cilla admitted she was wracked with guilt in the immediate aftermath of her daughter’s death, thinking she may have worked too hard during her pregnancy.

Cilla explains: “A child as well, and you blame yourself. “Maybe if I didn’t work, maybe if I rested.

“But you know, I worked through all my other pregnancies, so why should this one be different? I don’t know, maybe it’s nature’s way.”

When Piers suggested that a grieving parents ‘never gets over something like that’, Cilla agreed.

She said: “No, you don’t.”

Cilla said her husband Bobby, who died 10 years ago, refused to allow her to wallow in self-pity and reminded her other women have experienced the same loss.

She said: “I actually said to Bobby, “Why me?” And he was very tough with me, he said, “Well, why not you?”

Five years later, Cilla went on to have her third son Jack, who is now 28.

While Cilla never had a daughter, she was overjoyed when her eldest son Robert, 39, gave her a granddaughter Larna, now two. He also has a son Max, five.

She said: “I often think what Ellen would have been like, obviously, all the time.

“Especially as I think she would have been married now.

“But now I have two great grandchildren. I have my Larna, and it was the greatest joy to me, my grandchildren.”