Philomena Lee: 'To think the nuns never told us my son was searching for me'By. Catherine O'brien for Mail. Online. Published.

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Philomena Lee: 'I cried out his name, and I didn’t stop crying for two weeks'As a teenager in Ireland, Philomena Lee (right) was banished to a convent for the ‘sin’ of having a baby out of wedlock, and forced to give him up. As a major new film about her life is released, she tells Catherine O’Brien about their heartbreaking search for each other. Philomena Lee lives in a neat semidetached house on a quiet Home Counties street. Inside her sitting room are photographs of her children and grandchildren, and on one wall set slightly apart is a portrait of a handsome man dressed in a pinstriped suit and tie.

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As he gazes at the camera lens, his smile is warm and open. Every day I think, “If only I could put my arms around him one more time,”’ says Philomena. He looks to me like the type of chap who would have wanted that.’The man in the photograph is Philomena’s elder son. She named him Anthony and loved him passionately, but she was never allowed to know him.

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Anthony was born in Ireland in 1. Roman Catholic church to be ‘the product of sin’. Disowned by her family for becoming pregnant at the age of 1. Philomena was taken in by nuns who allowed her to see her child for an hour a day. Then, when Anthony was three and a half, he was placed in the back of a car and driven out of her life. In my dreams that moment still comes back to me,’ she says.

I see his little face looking through the rear windscreen – I’ve relived it so many times.’ No one explained fully to Philomena exactly where her son was being taken; she was just told that, as she couldn’t provide a home for him, the church had found a good Catholic family that could. The Mother Superior forced her to sign a pledge of surrender and warned her that she would ‘burn in the fires of hell’ if she ever uttered a word to anyone about her ‘shameful secret’. For almost half a century, Philomena didn’t.

On Wednesday, however, she will appear on the red carpet in London’s Leicester Square for the UK premiere of the film that bears her name and traces her heartbreaking quest to be reunited with her son. Alongside her will be Dame Judi Dench, who has already been tipped for an Oscar for her brilliantly affecting performance in the title role.

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Philomena, which also stars and was co- written by Steve Coogan, won the best screenplay award at the Venice Film Festival and has been receiving standing ovations at previews. For years, I couldn’t talk about my life to anybody,’ says Philomena. And now it is all anyone wants to talk about.’ Scroll down for video. Anthony before leaving for America in December 1. And playing on a slide in Sean Ross Abbey, shortly before he was taken away from Philomena.

Philomena’s story is complex and harrowing, and yet the first thing that strikes you about Philomena herself is that she bears no rancour. She’s seen the film twice, she tells me, ‘and the first time was stressful, but the second time I enjoyed it, and I was so glad that they didn’t harp on about the Catholic church because I wouldn’t have wanted that’. At 8. 0, she is two years older than Dame Judi, and in many ways the two women couldn’t be more different – Dame Judi is a national treasure ‘and I’m a nobody, really’, Philomena says with cheerful modesty, but they got on like a house on fire. She got me to a T – I felt I had known her all my life,’ says Philomena. While at a press launch, Dame Judi enthused about Philomena’s ‘lively sense of humour’ and declared herself awed by her capacity for clemency: ‘I wish I could say that I would have her scope to forgive but I doubt if I would. It’s what makes her story worth telling.’To understand how Philomena emerged gracious rather than hostile and vengeful from the cruelty she endured, you first have to understand a little of where she came from.

Born in County Limerick, the fourth of six children, she suffered her first loss at the age of six, when her mother died of tuberculosis. Unable to cope, her father, who worked as a butcher’s assistant, placed Philomena and her two sisters in a convent, keeping only his three sons at home.

The girls visited their family just once a year, but Philomena never felt that they were hard done by. At least we had a dad and that meant people thought more of us,’ she says. If you were illegitimate in those days, well, God help you.’Anthony arriving at Chicago airport in December 1.

Mary, the little girl from Roscrea who was adopted with him and became his sister. At 1. 8, she emerged from the convent academically proficient, but hopelessly naive, and went to live with an aunt.

Shortly afterwards, she went to a carnival in Limerick, where she shared her first kiss with a boy who had bought her a toffee apple. I was very green – I didn’t know what I was doing,’ she says. Six months later, her aunt looked down at her swollen girth and asked if she was pregnant, ‘and I had to ask her what she meant – I had no idea how babies were made’.  In disgrace, Philomena was taken to the doctor, who recommended that she be sent directly to the Sean Ross Abbey, a convent run by the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in County Tipperary. Anthony’s birth, a few weeks after her 1. He was breech but the nuns refused her any painkillers.

They said my pain was my penance. And then, before he came out, they knelt down and prayed because they thought I was going to die.’   Philomena was one of thousands of Irish women ‘put away’ during the 1. She was allowed to nurse her baby for eight weeks, after which he was taken to the nursery block and she was set to work in the laundry. Like every other unmarried mother who toiled in washrooms and kitchens, she was unpaid and told that if she wanted to leave, her family would have to give the nuns £1. There was no way my father could have come up with that sum,’ says Philomena.

And anyway, he had told everyone that he didn’t want my name mentioned again.’Anthony, now called Michael, growing up as a teenager in America. To the outside world, the church appeared charitable, but the reality was that ‘fallen’ women like Philomena were providing a bread and butter income. The Irish government paid £1 a week for every mother in its care, and a further two shillings and sixpence for every baby. And there was another revenue stream to be exploited – in what amounted to an illicit baby trade, thousands of children were given up for adoption to US couples in exchange for ‘donations’ of $2,0. A week before Christmas in 1. Anthony, then a three- year- old with his mother’s dark hair and blue eyes, became one of them.

From an upstairs window, Philomena watched, sobbing and helpless, as he was led away by nuns, along with another toddler named Mary who was one of his best friends. I cried out his name, and I didn’t stop crying for two weeks,’ she recalls.

To get the distraught Philomena off their hands, the nuns sent her to Liverpool, where she worked in a school for delinquent boys run by the same holy order. All she had left of her son were a few photos, surreptitiously given to her by one of the kinder sisters. On a return trip to Ireland the following summer, she went back to the convent and begged the nuns to tell her where Anthony had gone – they refused. Her sadness turned to anger and left her faith in tatters. I remember going to confession and thinking, “What am I doing here?

I’m not doing this any more.”’ In 1.

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