Labour MP and Oscar winner Glenda Jackson fell and broke her hip on the way to a public engagement – but picked herself up and carried on to give her speech anyway.
The 65-year-old actress-turned-politician was on her way to a centre for homeless people in south London when she took a tumble, fracturing her hip and wrist. “Glenda being Glenda, she got up and went to the speaking engagement and spent an hour or so there,” said her son Dan Hodges. “It wasn’t until the end she felt unwell and got someone at the event to take her to the hospital.”
After an X-ray revealed the severity of the injuries, she had an operation to repair the damage. Though the details of when the accident took place are unclear, son Dan revealed that the two-time Oscar winner now has pins in her hip.
Glenda, who won a BAFTA in 1972 for her role in Sunday Bloody Sunday, ended her 35-year film career a decade ago in order to pursue politics full-time.
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