A widow who lost her husband after 43 years of marriage has come out as gay and found new love with a woman after a lifetime suppressing her true feelings.
Lesley, whose partner Roy died four years ago after a long, debilitating illness, spent the last decade of her spouse’s life devoted to caring for him.
The 74-year-old has finally come out to friends and family and is now in a lesbian relationship for the first time ever, all thanks to The Secret Helpers, on BBC2 last night, leaving viewers in floods of tears.
She was given crucial advice and support via a secret earpiece from worldly wise “sages” around the globe, including retired New York cops Mark and Joe who encouraged her to go to a gay bar to meet new people.
And it paid off in the best possible way as the programme ended with the revelation that Lesley is now going out with one of the women she met at the pub on the night.
The widow said: “I’
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