Theatre star Ruthie Henshall features in this week’s edition of Hello! magazine with her two daughters — Lily Amalia, 6, and Dolly Olivia, 5, and talks about how she explained to the girls about why she split up with her husband and their father — Tim Hower — in the summer of 2009.

We explained it to them in their own language, saying that Mummy and Daddy had to be best friends to be married and we aren’t best friends anymore. We told them that we would each have our own house, and they could decorate their rooms how they liked. It didn’t sink in for Lily until Tim went to Canada to see his family for a week, and she cried and cried like I have never seen before.

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