Cherry Healey on her successful co-parenting relationship with ex husband

Happy Mum Happy Baby

Giovanna Fletcher

Kids & Family

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Our guest this week is the insightful, witty, and all-round wonderful Cherry Healey, who over the years has graced our screens with the likes of SAS Who Dares Wins, Inside the Factory, and numerous BBC3 documentaries.

Cherry opens up to Giovanna about her complex relationship with her dad, and how having children herself and leaning into therapy helped to heal her childhood wounds.

Plus, Cherry admits that she once subscribed to the societal stereotypes associated with being a single parent - until she became one herself. She also expresses heartfelt admiration for her ex-husband and tells Gi she feels lucky that her children have the best dad in the world.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Happy Mum, Happy Baby.
0:04.0	Neither of us wanted to hurt each other.
0:05.8	Yeah.
0:06.7	And I've just been really lucky that he's like the best dad ever.
0:10.7	And because I had such a difficult experience with my dad,
0:14.1	watching him parent is so healing.
0:16.5	I can't even tell you for all the therapy in the world,
0:20.0	just knowing that my children have
0:21.8	got the best ad.
0:23.4	We had the most family come and visit.
0:25.6	It was like going to get my hair done.
0:27.9	I walked in, I put a gown on, I lay down.
0:32.2	They gave me something lovely that made me not feel anything.
0:35.2	Not that they do that at the hairdresser.
0:38.1	They give me a cappuccino and a little biscuit.
0:40.6	Best hairdresser other babes.
0:42.8	I was not aware of how I viewed single parents until I became one.
0:48.9	I became a single mom and I realized that nothing changed.
0:52.8	I wasn't suddenly waking up and kids going to school late.
0:55.8	I was the same mom.
0:57.3	On it?
0:57.8	I was on it.
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