EastEnders 88 year-old legend June Brown who plays Dot has revealed that she is losing her sight. Also she has said that her pension has been so badly hit that she has to continue working to pay the bills.
She says that the sight in one eye gets so bad that it's like looking like the cross hairs of a rifle.
She said: “I see things in my eyes now. My eyes are not very good. In the left occasionally I do get this small circle with what looks like cross-wires. "I do pray about my sight – maybe it will return.”
And the twice-married star – who plays Dot in the BBC1 soap – said the financial crisis had badly affected her savings.
She revealed in a Radio 4 interview that she had to keep on working because she was scared of “being poor when I’m old”.
She added: “You might laugh at that and think ‘she’ll never be poor when she’s old’ but I’ve not squirreled away lots of money.
"I’ve had two pensions each that have gone down by 50%.”
June joined EastEnders at the age of 58 - two years before her official retirement age.
And she’s played chain-smoking Dot for 30 years, apart from a four-year break in the mid-1990s.
She was made an MBE in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours.
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