Claims extracted
16
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
6%
1 of 16 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
64/100
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Actor Jason Watkins has paid tribute to his daughter Maude on what would have been her 18th birthday.
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what → pay → daughter
The 63-year-old - who played Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the Netflix drama - said he will “never stop loving” Maude in his emotional post.
“Today, she would have been about to jump into the world.
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she → play → world
Who knows what she will have done with her precious life.
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she → know → life
“How would she have strode through it?
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she → stride → it
She would have met people, and loved them, and been loved.
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She → meet → them
She could have made her own world – and changed the world too.”
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She → make → world
Watkins went on: “Made her own ripple, large or delicate, that would have touched and rocked so many; Every new day, she would have nudged another’s in to joy – as she did with us, when she was here.
“Now today, as an adult, what waves she would have made..what love she will have given.
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she → go → love
The love we would have given in return, has never stopped.
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we → give → return
“We will never stop loving you.
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We → stop → you
You are loved, my sweet, sweet girl..xx.”
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You → love → ?
Watkins paid tribute to his daughter at the 2015 Baftas while accepting the award for leading actor for his role in The Lost Honour Of Christopher Jefferies.
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Watkins → pay → Jefferies
He said at the time: “If there is a reason why I’m standing here it is because of our Maudie, so thank you.”
Watkins has two other children with Francis and two older children with his first wife, actress Caroline Harding.
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Watkins → say → wife
He previously said he was struggling to cope with his grief.
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he → say → grief
“We are an imperfect family who have survived the worst thing that can happen to a parent,” he said.
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he → survive → parent
“It’s indescribable, the sense of guilt, loss, the absence of your child, the light of your life is gone and you don’t know how you can go on.”
The actor took Maude to the hospital in 2010 when her flu-like symptoms worsened.
She was treated for croup, a common condition that affects babies' airways and sent home with steroids.
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that → ’ → steroids
She developed stridor, a high-pitched sound that signals airflow obstruction, and was rushed back to hospital and given more steroids.
Maude was sent home again and died in her sleep on New Year’s Day 2010 of sepsis, a life-threatening condition that affects the immune system and proves fatal if not treated immediately.
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that → develop → system
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