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AMY Huberman has spoken about how difficult it has been not being able to visit her father Harold for the past three weeks.
Due to Level 3 restrictions, the pregnant actress (41) has had to stand outside the window of her care facility in Rathmines and say hello to him as she watches, which has been “very hard” for her.
On paper, she appears to have the dream life as the nation’s bride who is married to a rugby hero and regularly provokes hilarity with her witty and insightful Instagram posts.
In the public eye for the better part of two decades, he remains one of the warmest and most genuine celebrities interviewed.
However, the same day Nphet raised the Level 5 restrictions last Monday, he felt a sudden wave of “frustration” at how much life had changed during Covid.
“Comparatively speaking, we have it very easy; people have been so sick and so bad, ”he said.
“I think the flip side of the coin is that it would be really unnatural if you didn’t have days where the last seven months didn’t feel really difficult or you didn’t miss your family and friends.
“It’s like this general anxiety, and if you never felt it, it would also be very strange.”
His father Harold (82), a designer and artist, has Parkinson’s disease and until 18 September, when the new restrictions were introduced for Dublin, he enjoyed seeing him regularly.
“My dad is in a nursing home; He needs 24-hour nursing care and he’s really fed up, ”he explained.
“Even though he’s there we would have taken him out for coffee and breakfast and he loves going out and he’s quite impulsive in making plans and he likes to have plans.
“He was never one to do nothing and is finding it very, very difficult.
“So we’re talking to him, but with Parkinson’s, you lose some volume in your voice and I’m not going to go in to see him now and it’s very difficult.
“It sucks and some days it’s so hard and for him and for them to keep up.
“Fortunately, he lives two ways from me and that proximity is a comfort to me.
“I hope it’s for him because I’ll walk and wave through the window, but I know he’s so small in comparison.
“It is so difficult and on Monday when everyone was waiting to hear what was going to happen, I was very frustrated.
“We have to have those days to process it. I know I am in a fortunate position in many ways and I try to stay positive, even for my own sanity.
“If I go down the garbage pit, I’m just in really bad shape for my family, I just can’t do it.”
Amy is finding a lot of comfort in pregnancy number three, a brother to Sadie (7) and Billy (5), and pregnancy hormones and tiredness aside, she’s feeling great so far.
Attending all of her prenatal appointments without her husband Brian O’Driscoll due to maternity restrictions has been “weird” and her heart goes out to single new moms.
“It is a strange time and I will not delight in as much of the pregnancy as before. It’s more like, ‘Keep going.’
“It’s my third time on Holles Street and it feels really different and there’s nothing real and everyone comes in and out. I feel lucky to be well and the pregnancy has gone well.
“It’s a lot for people who go on that journey on their own; when they’re really nervous and anxious and have to go through it alone.
“It’s a time when you feel so vulnerable, but I feel like I have nothing to complain about because I go in and out for the scans.
“Yes, I wish Brian could be there, but there are people who have needed emotional support or parents have needed it for the first time.
“I think that is very, very difficult. It’s that shared experience too because I was saying to Brian, ‘Does it feel strange to you?’ Going to the hospital makes it real (to me), seeing the scans and everything.
“I’m just passing on information and it’s our third again, so it’s like, ‘The baby is great,’ but at the same time, it must be weird.
“I’d say he forgets half the time until I start complaining.
“It’s been a really nice distraction because on the days when you feel really heavy and awful, and thinking about the state of the whole world, it’s good to go and focus on that (the pregnancy) and that’s a really good thing to look forward to. a, ”he added.
Now seems like the perfect time to screen the second season of Finding Joy, his popular series that had the highest-rated comedy debut in 2018 for RTÉ.
He sees her reprising her role as Joy who is trying to recreate herself as an entrepreneur and develop her brand.
“It was all filmed last November and post-production was completed just before closing came.
“It feels like a lifetime has passed, but it’s the kind of humor that I love to escape from, that transcends reality for 25 minutes.
“I can’t wait to see it because we shot it BC (Before Corona).”
As for the future, he is characteristically optimistic that this too will pass.
“I think we will absolutely get over it and I try to find fun and humor in things.
“I think every once in a while, the weight of weeks of saying, ‘Okay’ suddenly becomes, ‘Argh’ and you slide around a bit and then you say, ‘Okay, go ahead.
The second season of Finding Joy airs Saturday on RTÉ 1 at 9.55 pm
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