TV personality Charlotte Dawson on how motherhood has changed her and why she wants a five-day wedding
KIRSTY BROOK
Charlotte Dawson is a self-confessed good time girl, who doesn’t take life too seriously. But the events that have unfolded in her life of late would have shaken even the most positive of people.
In 2022, Charlotte revealed she had suffered a miscarriage, and while she and her fiancé Matt Sarsfield fortunately went on to have baby son Jude, now seven months – a brother to son Noah, three – it’s not been plain sailing.
Jude has suffered from breathing difficulties that have seen him admitted to hospital twice, and Matt, 32, has also dealt with his own health woes, after botched laser treatment for kidney stones left him in agony.
They’ve also found themselves the victim of online trolls for the past two years who maliciously reported the pair to social services and the NSPCC after being accused of mistreating and abusing their sons. It’s something they are still trying to recover from, and they are working with the police and social services to investigate.
Despite this, the former Ex On The Beach and Celebs Go Dating star, 31, is warm, friendly and open on our call, as she tells us how her family are putting the tough times behind them and concentrating on the future with their two beautiful boys…
Hi, Charlotte! You’ve certainly been on a rocky road for a while. How are you?
It’s been a tough time, yes. I’m just so glad Jude’s OK, as his health scares have been awful.
Has he made a full recovery?
He’s fine, thank goodness. He had a virus called RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) when he was seven weeks old. He was in hospital with wires everywhere and an oxygen mask on. Seeing him like that just broke my heart, even though he was in the best place possible. I didn’t know anything about RSV, but they told me at the hospital that he could have died if I hadn’t brought him in. So when I saw the signs again earlier this month, I took him straight to hospital again and he stayed in overnight while they monitored him. He did have RSV but not as bad as before. I do worry that he’s going to struggle with his breathing now or he might have asthma.
And how is Matt now?
He’s also fine. I was doing pantomime in December when he got really ill. He was peeing blood and the doctor told him it was kidney stones, so he got them lasered. But it went wrong –
