When her only child Daisy was born 15 years ago, actress Joely Richardson was torn between going back to work and being a mother. She chose work and made her way the top of her game as a highly-paid star of one of American’s most popular television dramas, Nip/Tuck. However Miss Richardson has now stunned producers of the show by telling them she is quitting to return to the UK to care for her daughter. She has revealed for the first time that Daisy has a rare medical condition which she was diagnosed with shortly after her first birthday. The teenageer is due to undergo a series of operations on her legs after gradually developing circulation problems in her veins over the years. The condition, which Miss Richardson, 41, has never spoken of before, is understood to weaken the valves and walls of the veins making them less efficient at circulating blood back to her heart. "Surgeons and hospitals have been a big part of our lives. We were always told that she would have to have more surgery when she got older. The time has come," the actress revealed. Speaking of her departure from the plastic surgery drama, she said: "What the future holds, nobody can say. It’s all up in the air. And I don’t know if I will ever be here (in Hollywood) again. "I love my work. But I had to be in two places at once and I thought, ‘If it were all over tomorrow, what would I regret?’ It would be not being there for her. "It had to be done but it was scary." Joely, who spends six months of the year in London and six months in Los Angeles, added she felt rather concerned that she had not forewarned producers of the show: "You think, ‘Oh my God, are they going to sue me?" Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy said: "It was sad, but Joely came before her character. The dynamic of the show changed with the difficulty of what she was going through (personally), plus what she is going through on the show this season playing the mother of a deformed baby. That said, Joely is the best she has ever been." Murphy said he was praying the actress would make it back for the next season of the show: "I don’t want to do the show without her," he said.
Daily Mail
Can’t say I blame her, in fact I respect her for putting her daughter first!
