Hundreds of guests watched as British actress Samia Ghadie married the man of her dreams recently. But there was one very important person missing: her mother.
According to The Sun, the 34-year-old had banned Patsy Ghadie, 66, from her nuptials with dancer Sylvain Longchambon following a long-running dispute that lead to an ultimatum about her attendance.
It reportedly all started when Patsy was relegated to the back of the church for the christening of the couple’s first child, Yves, last year, leaving her feeling isolated and unwanted. The incident placed a lasting strain on their relationship, which culminated in Patsy not earning a place on the guest list.
Ghadie previously told OK! Online she wanted to keep numbers low.
“With all the planning that’s gone into it, I want to be able to try and enjoy the day as much as we can,” she said.
“We’ve also tried to keep our guest numbers down as much as possible to our really close friends and family.”
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And it wasn't just the ceremony that Patsy was excluded from. Ghadie, a star of hit UK programme Coronation Street, reportedly also left her mother out of the wedding planning, hen's party and, sadly, even dress shopping.
Also struck from the invite list was Ghadie's brother Tariq, with whom she has also feuded in the past.
With her father, Jospeh Ghadie, having passed away from cancer in 2009, it was left to her six-year-old daughter from a previous marriage to walk her down the aisle.
"Freya walked me down the aisle," Ghadie told OK!. "I didn’t want her to give me away as she’s never going to have to give me away in her life, so she walked me down the aisle as Sylvain is getting Freya as well."
Despite the family tension, Ghadie told OK! the day was better than she could have imagined.
“It was absolutely magical to spend it with friends and family who we love,” she said.
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I don't see or speak to either of my parents.
Neither was a quick or easy decision.
Neither situation eventuated over one or two blow ups. It takes time to get there.
One parent abandoned and neglected me in my formative years and wonders why we don't have a relationship now.
The other one has a mental health, social and behavioral problems which culminates in threats, and rage and abuse episodes. Refuses to get help or treatment.
I've had counselling and mediation with both of them from my childhood to within the last 12 months. That's over 22 years.
Apart from those close to me, knowing this would surprise a lot of people as I am a normal, stable, successful, person who is articulate, intelligent and fun. I have a partner, pets, a great job, a nice lifestyle and soon, a baby.
You really cannot ever know the whole story or the extent of things from a few quotes or sources in a magazine. She - and I - are hardly going to reveal the entire backstory to our colleagues, acquaintances or the world. If anything, you learn to mask and shield it. For a long time, I felt shame. Breaking out of the shame to tell others was what saved me.
The way certain people in my family have carried on over the years, including my mother, has led us to exclude people from our own family events. Ample warnings about acceptable behaviour have been given, multiple promises on their part about behaving themselves have been broken. Even if you get blasted before or after the event by those excluded, its worth it if it means your day goes smoothly and without drama (fights, arrests, drunken car crashes after storming out, insulting innocent guests etc. etc.)....