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Inside June Brown's life - family, devastating off screen heartbreak and refusal to quit smoking

June played the chain-smoking hypochondriac Dot Cotton for 35 years, quickly becoming a fan favourite both on and off Albert Square.

Daily Record · Apr 4, 2022

June Brown 'longed for a companion' in her final years after losing two husbands

June Brown lost first husband John Garley to suicide when she was just 29 and Robert Arnold, the father of her five children, to dementia almost 20 years ago and longed for one last romance

Daily Mirror · Apr 4, 2022

June Brown wrote that she blamed herself for her first husband's suicide in biography

The late EastEnders star was married twice – but her first husband, the actor John Garley, sadly took his own life in 1957. June wrote in her book, Before The Year Dot, that she blamed herself for John's death.

Daily Mirror · Apr 4, 2022