Kym Marsh admits she keeps her son’s ashes next to her bed

"It's a wound that will never heal."

Kym Marsh has opened up about coping with the loss of her son Archie, saying it's left a hole in her life. The actress, who plays Michelle Connors on Coronation Street, lost the little boy just minutes after her was born at 18 weeks in 2009. "I think of Archie every day. I still talk to him to say goodnight or I love you," she told the Mirror. "We never got to know what kind of a little boy he was or what he would've liked. What colour would his eyes or his hair have been? "Would he have liked Thomas the Tank Engine, or going on holiday, or which football team? All I know was that he should have come home with us. So that's what we did. "We took his ashes home in a tiny box and I keep them next to my bed." Archie was Michelle's first child with ex-husband Jamie Lomas. The couple went on to have a daughter, Polly, in 2011 but split from one another in 2013. Michelle is also mum to 22-year-old son David and daughter Emilie, 20. She admitted that she'd never fully get over her son's death. "It's a wound that will never heal. There will always be an Archie shaped hole in our lives. "It's not something you get over, but you have to come to terms with it, accept what's happened as part of the healing process."

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— Kym Marsh (@msm4rsh) October 15, 2017

Michelle paid tribute to Archie on International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Day last October, sharing a poem called The Cord on Twitter. Kym's Corrie character Michelle dealt with a similar experience last year when she suffered a miscarriage at 23 weeks. She admitted that she had to access a lot of difficult emotions for the storyline.