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Coronation Street‘s Sue Cleaver looked glamorous in a white jumpsuit as she covered Prima’s November issue on Wednesday.
The soap star, 61, told of how she has learnt to embrace ageing and lifted the lid on 25 years of playing Eileen Grimshaw while speaking to the magazine.
The actress admitted that since entering her 60s she feels that the world is now her ‘oyster.’
She explained: ‘There are so many people my age who I speak to that are depressed about reaching 60. You feel like this is the end of the line, that everything goes down from here. And I absolutely don’t feel that way.
‘I just feel like the world really is my oyster now, and there’s so much available out there. There’s so much that you can do.’
Coronation Street’s Sue Cleaver looked glamorous in a white jumpsuit as she covered Prima’s November issue on Wednesday
The soapstar, 61, told of how she has learnt to embrace ageing and lifted the lid on 25 years of playing Eileen Grimshaw
She also revealed in the candid interview how her reliance on alcohol has lessened as she gets older, explaining: ‘I don’t have any fear around alcohol any more, and that is really freeing.’
‘I never imagined getting to that state. I thought I had a dependency. I thought I couldn’t get by without having a glass of wine at night.’
‘I thought life wouldn’t be great without a glass of wine. It would be absolutely great without wine. I just thought it wouldn’t. It’s the thinking around it that is the problem.’
Sue, who has played Eileen since 2000, revealed what she loves the most about her role, saying that she ‘represents every woman.’
‘Everybody knows an Eileen. You look on the majority of streets up and down the UK and you’ll find an Eileen or someone who’s kind of like an Eileen,’ she said.
‘She may not have as many waifs and strays as the TV Eileen, and she may not be fitting as many people into her very small little terraced house, but I think she’s recognisable as a woman who’s faced a lot – a single mother, dealing with what life throws at her, and not only managing, but thriving in a way.’
Elsewhere, Sue lifted the lid on what really happens behind-the-scenes in Weatherfield in an interview with The Mirror.
Recalling a wild night out for her on screen son, Ryan Thomas’ 21st birthday she told of how ‘a quiet drink’ ended with her breaking into her dressing room in the early hours.
Sue explained: ‘It made total sense to me to head straight from the party to the studios nearby and sneak into my dressing room and sleep until my make-up call.’
Sue, who recently lost three-stone , changed into a bright green, off-the-shoulder jumpsuit
In the accompanying interview, the actress admitted that since entering her 60s she feels that the world is now her ‘oyster’
Elsewhere, Sue lifted the lid on what really happens behind-the-scenes in Weatherfield as she recalled a wild night out for her on screen son, Ryan Thomas’ 21st birthday (pictured in 2007)
She continued: ‘Thankfully, no one was any the wiser and I definitely wasn’t the only person to do this over the years.
‘I admit too that some of my best lunchtime snoozes have been on a well-known character’s bed!
‘I don’t do that so much now, but sometimes if we’re filming in the Grimshaws and it’s lunchtime, I’ll just stay there and have a kip on the sofa.’
The November 2024 issue of Prima is now on sale
The November 2024 issue of Prima is now on sale
