Emmerdale star Lisa Riley breaks down in emotional Loose Women interview

Lisa Riley became emotional during an interview on Loose Women when discussing her late mother. The Emmerdale star's mother Cath died of cancer in 2012, with Lisa opening up about how her faith helped her come to terms with her grief.

"It helped with my mum so much; sometimes it was hard," Lisa said before she began to cry, as Charlene White got up and offered her a tissue.

"At the end of the day, when I had to be the leader of the family and tell my dad," she continued.

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"My dad was in denial all the way through and through. He was like, 'She'll get better'. I had to be so stoic for the family and go, 'She's not going to get better. She isn't, Dad. She's going to die'.

"Up until her last breath, he believed that. So I was like, 'Dad, come on, remember our faith, remember those days when we used our faith and just had that silence together?' Yeah, you are so rich having the faith you have. It's wonderful."

She went on to say that she also turned to her faith when her mother's father was dying,

"When he was in his last five days of his life, when we had faith, it wasn't necessarily on our knees praying. What we did, around the bed, we just held hands, and we gave that energy," she continued.

"That good, heartfelt energy, and it was faith that he would get better. We knew the outcome; we knew he wasn't going to make it, but he could feel that next to him."

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Earlier this year, Lisa paid a heartbreaking tribute to her late mother 14 years after her passing.

"14 years ago today, Mum, you were taken away from us. To be our guiding light. How I only wish I could just have you with me, let me hear you, let me laugh with you, smile at the same stupid things. Every single day of my life you were either by my side with me, or we spoke never less than twice a day," Riley wrote on her Instagram Stories.

"This very year I turned 50, I don't have a photo of you next to me when I cut my Birthday Cake-when I got my letter from the King that I'd been honoured on his Birthday list as a MBE, I couldn't tell you.

"That is why it's hard. You were, ARE, my everything. The years go by since you went to heaven, but the NEED for you by my side never ever ever ever goes away. LOVE YOU MUM."

Emmerdale airs on weeknights at 8pm on ITV1, and streams on ITVX.

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