03-06-2025
Emmerdale star reveals she no longer speaks to her family after being ‘cut out' of dad's will
EMMERDALE star Suzanne Shaw has revealed she no longer speaks to her family after being "cut out" of her dad's will.
The actress, 43, claimed that her late cameraman father Vincent Crowshaw, who died in 2012 from a brain tumour, left everything to her stepmum.
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Suzanne said it felt like a "slap in the face" and admitted her family became "divided" over her dad's inheritance, with her no longer speaking to some family members.
The former Hearsay pop star also claimed that money was intended to be "split equally", but that never happened.
Suzanne opened up about her family rift on Channel 5 's Vanessa on Monday.
She said: "My dad passed away very sadly. A divided family as he had remarried. My brother got some inheritance but it was only his business he inherited and then my stepmum got all of it and it was meant to be split equally.
"She's now remarried, everything has gone to her side of the family and I got nothing out of any of it. It's like a slap in the face. It's like you weren't valued.
"I know what it feels like. It is hard. What it causes is divide. We no longer speak to those people who were a big part of our life and that's sad."
TV presenter Carrie Grant, 59, told Suzanne that she had recently had a conversation with her husband David about splitting her own estate equally between their four kids: Olive, Tylan, Arlo and Nathan.
Suzanne has previously opened up about the heartache of losing her father.
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She said: "What was hardest was witnessing his rapid deterioration. It was a very tough time for the family."
In March 2012, Vincent was diagnosed with a grade four glioblastoma tumour and was told he only had 12 to 18 months left to live.
Suzanne said: "The experts tell you how serious the situation is but you don't really believe them until you see it and I always thought that 'my dad's invincible, there will be a miracle around the corner. He'll be fine. They'll get rid of the tumour'."
Just six months after his diagnosis, Vincent sadly passed away.
She continued: "The change in him during those last few weeks was both mentally and physically shocking."
"He ended up in a wheelchair in his final days and was having seizures. He was extremely confused, he didn't know what was going on around him and in the end his body just broke down.'
"We were all by his side. It was really nice and we all did everything that he wanted to do. We watched his favourite TV shows and everything that he really loved.'
"We played his favourite songs and we all sat there chatting and that's the way he would have wanted to go, with his close family around him. We all said goodbye to him and there was nothing left unsaid."
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