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ACTOR June Brown, who played the chain-smoking, bible-quoting Dot Cotton in BBC TV’s 'EastEnders,' once told how she lived in a haunted house and sent absent healing to those in need.
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JUNE BROWN told of exploring a tunnel
which inexplicably vanished.
(Photo: Joe Freeman)
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June, who passed on last month aged 95, first joined EastEnders in July 1985 as the mother of notorious ne’er-do-well Nick Cotton, who was played by John Altman.
Some years ago, June said that on Sundays, her one day off, she liked to sleep if possible.
“It would probably do me a lot more good to get up and go to church, but I’m afraid I’ve lapsed rather on that front,” she explained.
“I used to be a regular churchgoer until I found there were a few things I didn’t agree with… Spiritually I do consider myself a very religious person.
“I am also very interested in Christian healing. I am a healer myself, involved through the London Healing Mission.”
June explained that she was sent the names of people “who need prayers and I pray for them. It’s called absent healing.”
In an interview with a Manchester paper, June revealed how healing helped her partially paralysed daughter Chloe.
“I became interested in Christian healing when my mother was ill,” said June. “I couldn’t help her because I only really found out about it after she died, but I was determined to help Chloe.
“By the time she was a year-and-a-half, Chloe couldn’t crawl, could not sit up and couldn’t even eat proper food. She could only swallow tinned baby food. ”
June contacted the London Healing Mission and invited the Rev Roy Jeremiah to help.
“He came to the house, laid his hands on her head and prayed that the healing power would go through her,” she explained. “Within a fortnight, Chloe began to crawl.”
By the age of two, the child was able to run about normally and was “fully healed except for a very slight limp, which she still gets when she is tired.”
Off stage, June faced a number of difficulties including the loss of her sister Marise in childhood, then her first husband and later a baby with her second partner.
June married actor John Garley in 1953, but experienced tragedy when he took his life in 1957.
Subsequently, June said that she was in her sister’s kitchen drinking tea when she suddenly thought, “I must go home.”
The moment she reached the front door, “I knew something was wrong. I went in and found my husband unconscious by the gas fire.”
When June discovered John beside a suicide note he was still alive, but passed on in hospital four days later.
For some years, June lived with her second husband, Robert Arnold, in an old house in Folkestone, Kent.
“Objects started to move around the house by themselves,” she said. “We quickly realised that we had a very helpful ghost on our hands.”
Once, the actor was in the kitchen preparing dinner and a cooking utensil went missing. She asked out loud, “Where’s that blasted spoon?”
The “next second, a pan lid rattled on the other side of the kitchen. When I lifted up the lid, there was the spoon.”
June, who was interested in astrology, also told of being “out with a friend in the Warwickshire countryside and we came across this tunnel that seemed to go on forever.
“The deeper into the tunnel we went, the more we felt we were never going to come out alive and eventually fled back the way we’d come.
“When we returned to the same spot the following day, all trace of the tunnel had vanished.”
A fellow actor on EastEnders is on record as saying that although not a Spiritualist, June “was an avid reader of Psychic News,” which was established 90 years ago this month.
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