Hello there. I am Diane-Louise Jordan and I am a television presenter. I actually started out life as an actress and I was lucky to be in work constantly for seven years.
But towards the end of the seven years something life changing happened to me actually. I remember I was on tour with the national theatre in Nottingham and I got a call that my sister had suddenly died.
It's just too much to take and so I think I completely blanked up. The only thing I can remember of that evening was the family talking about how we as a family would look after her children because my sister was a single parent at that time. And so you know her children were effective orphans.
I was lucky enough to become the mum to my niece Justine. During that time I keep thinking how on earth am I going to be a mum, how am I going to do that on my own and do I just forget my career now.
Just questions that were rolling around in my head. When that tour came to an end I found myself on the dole, it lasted for 6 months but I found myself not knowing what the future might hold.
It was quite extraordinary actually how creative we were in terms of being able to live off that. One weekend we saved up, we waited two weeks for the dole cheque to come and we whizzed down to the art shop, and brought a glittery crayon and we spent the night with a bag of pop corn and our colouring pencils just drawing.
It was completely random and probably irresponsible as a parent but we had such a lovely time, and Justine stills cites that’s one of her favourite moments.
But I knew I had to earn a living and I didn't know how I was going to go out to work and have a baby to feed or a younger person to feed.
Out of the blue I was offered a job on Blue Peter I didn't quite anticipate how much I would be away from home, and I think if there's one regret that I have now it's, I wasn't around as much as I would have liked to been, I feel like I have missed a lot of those precious unplanned moments .
I would have loved more of those, the ones we have had I really cherish.
The truth is I'm lucky because Justine really helped me she comforted me just her being there and have to be responsible for her. And the joy that she gave me those first few years, she was good for me.
And as life has continued, she has left home and got married last year, a year before me.
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