Ruth Langsford felt “physical pain” when her son fled the nest.
Ruth Langsford was in physical pain when her and her husband Eamonn Holmes' son left for university
The ‘Loose Women’ anchor – who shares 20-year-old son Jack with presenter Eamonn Holmes – revealed she was so distraught when her boy left for university that she felt like someone has teared out her insides.
She said: “It sounds dramatic but for the next three days, I felt like I'd had my womb ripped out. It was physical pain. I was sitting on his bed, sniffing his pillow, and I kept his bedroom door shut because then I could imagine he was in there.
“Now it's great. Jack seems so happy and I don't get as upset each time he comes home and then leaves again.”
The 62-year-old star - who tied the knot with Eamonn, 62, in 2010 – has opened up about their marriage, admitting they only have small disputes over trivial things.
She added to Woman and Home magazine: “Eamonn and I don't fall out over big things. On our anniversary, he peeled off the foil cover on a plastic milk bottle, left it wet-side down on the worktop, poured his tea and off he went.
“Things like that can send me into a rage. I said, 'How can your brain tell you that's all right?' Eamonn's mum had five boys and did everything for them, whereas I went to boarding school and so I was a lot more practical, so we're quite different.
“If Jack ever left anything on the side, I'd go, 'Who do you think is picking that up? Me? Girls weren't put on the earth to pick up after men!' I hope that young women of his generation will not accept that. It shouldn't be the case that women work then come home and do the housework.”
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