The 88-year-old who plays Dot in the BBC1 soap says her pensions have been badly hit
EastEnders star June Brown has revealed her sight is failing but she needs to carry on working because her pension funds have plummeted.
The 88-year-old soap favourite said her sight was now so poor that the vision in one eye is sometimes reduced to looking like the cross-hairs of a rifle.
She said: “I see things in my eyes now. My eyes are not very good. In the left occasionally I do get this small circle with what looks like cross-wires.
"I do pray about my sight – maybe it will return.”
And the twice-married star – who plays Dot in the BBC1 soap – said the financial crisis had badly affected her savings.
She revealed in a Radio 4 interview that she had to keep on working because she was scared of “being poor when I’m old”.
She added: “You might laugh at that and think ‘she’ll never be poor when she’s old’ but I’ve not squirreled away lots of money.
"I’ve had two pensions each that have gone down by 50%.”
June joined EastEnders at the age of 58 - two years before her official retirement age.
And she’s played chain-smoking Dot for 30 years, apart from a four-year break in the mid-1990s.
She was made an MBE in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours.
The 88-year-old soap favourite said her sight was now so poor that the vision in one eye is sometimes reduced to looking like the cross-hairs of a rifle.
She said: “I see things in my eyes now. My eyes are not very good. In the left occasionally I do get this small circle with what looks like cross-wires.
"I do pray about my sight – maybe it will return.”
And the twice-married star – who plays Dot in the BBC1 soap – said the financial crisis had badly affected her savings.
She revealed in a Radio 4 interview that she had to keep on working because she was scared of “being poor when I’m old”.
She added: “You might laugh at that and think ‘she’ll never be poor when she’s old’ but I’ve not squirreled away lots of money.
"I’ve had two pensions each that have gone down by 50%.”
June joined EastEnders at the age of 58 - two years before her official retirement age.
And she’s played chain-smoking Dot for 30 years, apart from a four-year break in the mid-1990s.
She was made an MBE in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours.