Bodyguard star Keeley Hawes has revealed her horror as her teenage son was caught up in the Parsons Green terror attack last year.
The 42-year-old actress’s son, 18-year-old Myles who she shares with her first husband Spencer McCallum, sent her a terrifying text which signalled something was wrong, leaving her in an utter panic as he was embroiled in the drama.
Keeley has recently been starring in Bodyguard as Home Secretary Julia Montague, who is the target of assassination attempts following an attempted terrorist attack on a train.
The actress told the Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine: "I got a text from him written in capitals, so I knew immediately something was wrong, There were in a tunnel and the lights were going on and off.
"The ‘what if’ doesn’t bear thinking about."
The attempted bomber was 18-year-old Ahmed Hassan, who built a "bucket bomb" and set it off in Parsons Green station in west London last September.
The device failed to properly detonate but 51 passengers were left with serious burns and injuries, but there were no fatalities.
Keeley is also not a stranger to having a bodyguard, so can sympathise with her character to a degree, though Julia’s relationship with saucy David Budd (played by Richard Madden.)
She continued: "I’ve had a few bodyguards. I had one in Rio who had been shot about four times, and I had a female bodyguard in Mexico City who was 6ft 5in.
"When a fight broke out at a party, my feet didn’t touch the ground.
"She had me up, out and into the footwell in the back of the car. The door wasn’t even closed before we were speeding off."
Keeley’s character was supposedly killed in the third episode of the drama, as a bomb exploded under the stage as she spoke at a university.
The character had a controversial policy idea, but there is also some suggestion she may have had some enemies as she was preparing to launch a leadership bid, while also having some dodgy dealings with a security company without declaring what was going on.
The finale of Bodyguard airs on Sunday at 9pm on BBC1.
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