Coronation Street star Simon Gregson reveals new project amid mental health update
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Coronation Street star Simon Gregson has revealed his newest venture away from the cobbles, while also opening up about his mental health journey.
![[Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/Danielle Baguley/REX/Shutterstock (14396520av) Coronation Street - Ep 11228 & Ep 11229 Monday 1st April 2024 Steve McDonald, as played by Simon Gregson, returns home and is taken aback to find Tracy McDonald there and as he reaches into his pocket for Tommy's letter, he stops in his tracks when Tracy announces she'd like them to get back together. Tracy assures Steve that Tommy was a stupid mistake and promises she's back for good. 'Coronation Street ' TV Show, Episodes 11222 - 11239, UK - Apr 2024 Coronation Street, is a British ITV long running television soap opera set in the fictional North of England town of Weatherfield, near Manchester. Created by Tony Warren, the series was first broadcast on December 9th, 1960, and was produced by ITV Granada.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/SEI_209284184-9f72.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Appearing on Loose Women, the Steve McDonald actor revealed that he has written a children’s book, called The Dream Dragon. ‘I started it about 12 or 13 years ago because my elder two boys, Harry and Alfie, kept having night terrors,’ he told the panel.
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‘So, I told them that I had a dragon called the Dream Dragon, which would beat up the nightmares and scare them off, and they believed it. ‘I had to embellish on this story often, and I was telling a couple of the ladies at work, and they said “You should write it down”, and 12 years later I did.’.
He went on to explain how co-star Sue Cleaver, who plays Eileen Grimshaw in the ITV soap, encouraged him to pursue the project when he shared his doubts. The book has already had interest from publishers, with Simon hopeful that it will be published this year.
Elsewhere in the interview, Simon opened up about his struggle with anxiety, revealing that he first noticed the symptoms in the 1990s. ‘It just hits you like a ton of bricks and makes you feel incapacitated,’ he explained. ‘It all came to a head in 2015 when I kept having panic attacks,’ he said, before revealing that he had been experiencing them throughout the day leading up to the interview.
