Miriam Margoyles has revealed she now struggles to walk and admitted she regrets not making serious changes to her life after undergoing surgery last year.
The 83-year-old actress underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement surgery to avoid more invasive open-heart surgery, but revealed she still has health problems.
The Harry Potter actress also revealed that she is now registered as disabled and may be confined to a wheelchair due to a back problem.
Miriam explained that spinal stenosis, which occurs when the space around the spinal cord becomes too narrow compressing the nerves, could make it difficult for her to walk, restricting her to a wheelchair.
In an interview with Closer, the star said: “I can’t walk very well and I’m registered disabled so I use all sorts of aids. I’ve got two canes and a walker and they’re really boring, but I’ve got a mobility scooter, which is really fun.”
Miriam Margoyles has revealed she now struggles to walk and admitted she regrets not making serious changes to her life after undergoing surgery last year.
The Harry Potter actress also revealed that she is now registered as disabled and could be confined to a wheelchair due to a back condition that could confine her to a wheelchair.
Miriam’s primary source of income is her television work and includes acting and presenting, including her starring role as Mother Mildred in Call the Midwife (pictured).
But Miriam also revealed that she regrets not having made important changes in her lifestyle to improve her health.
She said she wished she could have gotten over her weight and described not doing so as a defeat.
During an appearance on the How to fail In September, the actress and presenter confessed that she had not won her eight.
She said: “I’m a blob of fat. I’m fat. And being fat and 82 years old is really pathetic.”
She has since also revealed her fears as she ages and worries about not being able to afford carers to look after her as her health deteriorates.
She told RadioTimes: “I’m worried I won’t have enough money for carers when I eventually become paralysed, or whatever’s going to happen to me.”
She added that she is now focusing on saving money to support herself and her partner and is embarking on another series of her hit show.
Miriam, who has been with her partner Heather since 1968, lives in Clapham, south-west London.
Miriam also makes videos for her fans on Cameo, where she charges £100 for a special greeting clip, and estimates it has earned her a whopping £365,000 since 2020 (pictured on Cameo)
The actress is set to direct a new series of BBC Two’s Miriam Margolyes: A New Australian Adventure, which airs this Friday.
Miriam’s primary source of income is her work in television and includes acting and presenting.
She plays Mother Mildred in Call the Midwife, has starred in numerous documentaries and is also a regular narrator on the talk show circuit, sharing Graham Norton’s couch with the likes of musician will.i.am and the late Friends star Matthew Perry.
He also has a lucrative side gig making videos for his fans on the website Cameo, where he charges £100 for a special greeting clip of his, and estimates it has earned him a whopping £365,000 since 2020.
Last year she earned £250,000 for her memoirs Oh Miriam!
Although he was initially reluctant to be filmed by cameras, he has now become a role model for seniors as part of his adventurous TV show.
She said: ‘When I started to feel physically unwell, I remember saying to directors and producers: please don’t show me getting out of a car or climbing stairs on my knees. I didn’t want people to see it because I was embarrassed to see myself looking so pathetic.’
“But I’ve since met a lot of people who have told me that I gave them the courage to do things they never thought they could do. So I’m really happy about that.”
