Devastated Leigh Arnold has flown to Ibiza after the trauma of giving evidence at the inquest into the death of her son Flynn.
The Clinic star has to relive the horror of discovering her two-and-a-half-week-old son dying in her sleeping fiance’s arms in May 2013.
Now Leigh has flown to Ibiza – where she will be getting married – with her sister Chloe.
Friends revealed that Leigh was so heartbroken after giving evidence at the Manchester inquest that she just had to get away.
A pal said: “When Flynn died last May, Leigh and Steve were devastated. I don’t think they will ever recover from it fully but they were dealing with the pain.
Family: Leigh with husband Steve
“The inquest brought everything back to her and she just needed to get away with some close family so she could start to heal again. When Flynn first died she spent a month in Ibiza and she found great comfort there.
“She is hoping the same will happen this time. She will get married there in May and so she is hoping that she will be afforded the privacy to deal with her loss. She won’t be talking to anyone about it.”
Yesterday, Goss.ie told how Leigh – who has another son, Hunter, aged two – had become “anxious” about Flynn while on a night out for dinner with a friend.
And the 34-year-old told an inquest of the moment she returned to her home in England to find fiancee Steve Davies asleep with Flynn lying in his arms, grey in the face.
TV: Leigh in her most recent show Deception
She said: “I could tell by the colour of his face that something was wrong. I screamed an awful lot. I don’t remember much after that.”
Her fiancee then awoke to discover Leigh going crazy, before he tried to resuscitate Flynn, from a 999 operator’s instructions.
He added: “I awoke to find Leigh in hysterics. Flynn wasn’t himself. He was grey in the face.”
The inquest heard that the baby made “a gurgling noise” during the attempts to save his life but this was just air leaving Flynn’s body and he could not be saved.
He was rushed to hospital where it was declared he died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or cot death.
