Dame Joan Collins has candidly discussed her past decision to have an abortion when she was building her career. The 88-year-old actress was aged 26 when she made the decision to abort her baby – with the procedure being carried out at a time when abortions were illegal in the UK.
Dame Joan discussed her choice to delay becoming a parent in a new episode of Pier’s Morgan’s Life Stories which is set to air on ITV on Sunday night.
She explained her reasons for going through with the procedure – which was made at a time when she was engaged to American actor Warren Beatty, who was the father.
She said: “I had an abortion. It would have been the death of my career, and I was by then 26. “Of course I hesitated but I realised that if I was