Kate Beckinsale has been left heartbroken after the death of her beloved mother Judy Loe.
The 51-year-old actress revealed her mother died aged 78 earlier this week ‘after immeasurable suffering’, just 18 months after Judy’s second husband and Kate’s stepfather Roy Battersby died in January 2024.
In an emotional Instagram post, Kate shared a series of photos of her late mother, and admitted she felt ‘paralysed’.
She wrote in a caption: ‘I don’t want to post this. I am only posting this because I have had to register my mother‘s death certificate and it will soon become public record.
‘She died the night of July 15th in my arms after immeasurable suffering. I have not picked all the best photos, nor the best videos, because I cannot bear to go through my camera roll yet.
‘I deeply apologise to any of her friends who are finding out this way or through the press, but I cannot go through her phone.
‘I am paralysed. Jude was the compass of my life ,the love of my life, my dearest friend. The vastness and huge heart of this tiny woman has touched so many people who love her dearly.’
A cause of death has not yet been confirmed, but the Pearl Harbour actress previously opened up about her mother’s lengthy battle with cancer.
Kate praised her ‘brave’ mother, who was also an actress, for the way she lived her life, and revealed her ‘greatest fear’ has come true after she found her late dad Richard Beckinsale dead aged 31 in 1979.
She continued: ‘She has been brave in so many ways, forgiving sometimes too much , believing in the ultimate good in people and the world is so dim without her that it is nearly impossible to bear. Mama, I love you so much.
‘This has been my greatest fear since finding my father dead at five and I am here. Oh my Mama.. I’m sorry, I’m so sorry. I am so sorry.’
Judy as diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in 2023, and in February this year, Kate asked followers on Instagram to ‘say a spare prayer’ for her mother.
Earlier this month, Kate shared a video of her tearing up as she sang Bye, Bye Love by The Everly Brothers to Judy in hospital in a reference to a vocal group she had when she was 14.
Kate said she is ‘trying to keep the Four Teens going’ as she welled up while singing in an emotional video she shared with fans, adding: ‘I am a very poor substitute not being a very good singer.
‘But I want my mum’s dearest and oldest friends in her hospital room with her. (Sylvia) and Chris, please know I’m trying to keep the Four Teens going as best as I can from a distance and I love you both.’
Kate also thanked her mother’s friends for their ‘support and love’, while jokingly apologising to ‘anybody in the hospital subject to [her] dreadful singing’.
She said: ‘It is a mark of my mother’s extraordinary capacity for love and deep respect for relationship history that her friendships with her early school friends are still so very current.
‘Love you all but most especially my mum.’
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