Dame Judi Dench has recalled a terrifying incident the place she fell over whereas dwelling alone and was caught for half-hour with out assist.

The 87-year-old spoke about her “frightful fall” after tripping over carpet, and confessed she even turned to her pet parrot for assist throughout the ordeal.

In an interview with Saga journal, Dench mentioned it was a sobering reminder of how she is dropping her independence in her outdated age.

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“I had a frightful fall not way back. I tripped over the carpet, and there was no person in the home and I used to be mendacity on the bottom unable to stand up for half an hour,” the Skyfall actress revealed.

“I’ve a beautiful parrot who stored saying, ‘What are you doing? What are you doing?’ That is whenever you want a really handy parrot who would telephone someone, however she did not.”

Whereas Dench mentioned she initially felt hopeless, she was in a position to stand up of her personal accord half an hour after the autumn.

The James Bond star lives a number of miles away from her boyfriend David Mills, 77, whereas her daughter Finty and grandson Sam stay close by.

Regardless of being aged in her late 80s, Dench mentioned she struggled to simply accept she was not as unbiased as she was once.

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“It is simply one thing it’s important to stay with,” she continued. “However you need to be unbiased — and it’s extremely, very tough.”

British-born Dench has had a glittering 60-year profession in Hollywood, starring in seven James Bond movies and touchdown iconic roles in motion pictures similar to Chocolat and Shakespeare in Love.

Final yr, the actress revealed how she has maintained a profitable movie profession as an octogenarian regardless of dropping her sight as a result of age-related macular degeneration.

“You discover a method of simply getting about and getting over the issues that you simply discover very tough,” Dench advised The Guardian.

“I’ve needed to discover one other method of studying traces and issues, which is having nice buddies of mine repeat them to me over and time and again. So I’ve to be taught via repetition, and I simply hope that folks will not discover an excessive amount of if all of the traces are utterly hopeless!”

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