EastEnders legend Pam St Clement has revealed details of how her life was changed forever when she had a lesbian affair behind her husband’s back.
The star, who played Pat Butcher in the hit soap, revealed details of the affair in her new autobiography The End of An Earring where she explains that she fell for a woman on a trip to Australia.
The affair took place while she was in her 30s and she was married at the time.
“The distance allowed me an objective view of my marriage – especially after we landed in Sydney,” she says in the autobiography which is being serialised in The Mirror.
“It was a pretty gay city even then, a mecca of fun and outrageous alternativeness.
“I fell, not for some bush-whacking hunk, but for a woman,” she continued. “It was a time of discovery and abandon, of excitement and freedom. I wanted to woo and be wooed and felt no guilt.
“For the first time an unexpected emotion hit me like a bombshell, its shockwave engulfing me,” she stated, adding, “I was so bereft at leaving.
“That month in Sydney went all too quickly and we were soon saying our farewells at the airport with promises of reunions back in the UK.”
