Pam St Clement has been talking about the time she had an affair behind her husbands back with a woman.
The former Eastenders actress played a man-loving matriarch Pat Butcher in the soap for nearly 30 years but was killed off in the soap after decing to leave a few years back.
Pam has now been talking about her affair during her time when she was away with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1976.
Writing in her new book The End of The Earring, serialised in the Daily Mirror, Pam said that being bisexual hit her like a ‘bombshell’.
She said:
‘For the first time an unexpected emotion hit me like a bombshell, its shockwave engulfing me.’
‘I fell, not for some bush-whacking hunk, but for a woman. It was a time of discovery and abandon, of excitement and freedom. I wanted to woo and be wooed and felt no guilt.
‘That month in Sydney went all too quickly and we were soon saying our farewells at the airport with promises of reunions back in the UK. I nearly missed the plane, I was so bereft at leaving.’
Pam then divorced her husband and started a new relationship with a woman called Diana.
The new book is due out February 10.
