Little Lacey, who plays Dee Dee, gives me tips! Diane Hutchinson is living through every parent’s worst nightmare at the moment, as she deals with a seriously ill child. And when Inside Soap settles down for a chat with our old pal Alex Fletcher, it’s clear that despite Diane’s heartache, the actress is enjoying her alter ego’s dramas…
“Diane doesn’t hold back how she feels, does she?” chuckles the star. “I kind of think, ‘Oh, Diane, just wind your neck in sometimes!’ Even I get the scripts and wonder how I’m going to make it work! It’s actually not that depressing when we’re shooting, because we have light moments within it. It’s hard work, but it’s good.”
While Diane’s daughter Dee Dee is undergoing treatment for her autoimmune encephalitis, the…