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Ingrid Pitt is very very unwell.

She showed up at a Doctor Who convention I went to last Sunday. I knew she was ill & not altogether rational following her stroke, she was pretty bad last time I saw her a few years back, but still I was shocked. She’d just come out from Intensive Care (!!!) & the organisers warned us to be gentle with her.

It was pitiful, she really should not have been there. The organisers were unhappy, it looked like no-one had told them how bad Ingrid really was. I’m not sure who agreed to her turning up – her or her quiet hubby hovering in the background. It might have been her, she’d brought all her usual tat just in case.

She came in breathing heavily with someone on each arm propping her up & faced with a set of 5-6 steps to the stage she whined ‘I can’t do this!’. On stage she behaved like a grumpy child, obviously confused & kept loudly interrupting the others.

She didn’t respond to the Interviewer’s simple question. Any memories of 'Warriors of the Deep'?: ‘No!’. Then she started asking him things like ‘Who are you?’ & ‘What are you doing here?’.

Really disturbing was her preoccupation with death. When someone began talking about their character’s death scene, Ingrid interrupted loudly ‘No no I don’t like you story!’. Asked about 'Warriors' director Pennant Roberts she gave a hazy account of him making a speech at a memorial service ending with ‘so every time I pass the funeral home I think of Pennant but (shuddering & pulling her coat round her) I don’t like to think about such things!’.

The signing afterwards became a relay race as they wanted Ingrid out ASAP. They took the item, rushed it to Ingrid & back again. While we understood why it was happening everyone still felt cheated that they’d taken the money & were now trying the sympathy vote to get out of earning it.

Looking at her site now I know there’s no way she can be writing any of it & anyone who’s been chatting to her via email is being conned.

She shouldn’t be doing this. She should be in a home giving some obviously much needed care. If whoever is pushing her to attend events doesn’t stop soon she won’t be with us much longer.