Denise Welch has been pictured apparently crying while sharing an emotional conversation with her son, rockstar Matty Healy.
The Loose Women panelist, 67, joined Matty, 36, on the sidewalk outside of a Los Angeles restaurant where he’d shared a meal with fiancée Gabriella Bechtel.
Matty and musician, actress, and model Gabriella Bechtel – known professionally as Gabbriette – first became linked in September 2023.
After being spotted together in September that year, they later confirmed their romance and were engaged by June 2024.
While former Coronation Street star Denise was less than complimentary about Matty’s ex – pop sensation Taylor Swift – she’s previously described Gabriella as ‘everything I would want in a daughter in law.’
In images taken as the trio shared a meal together in Los Angeles, mum Denise took a moment for what seemed to be an emotional conversation with The 1975 frontman Matty.
In the images, Matty joined his mother outside the restaurant where they had been dining with Gabbriette, 28.
As Matty lights up a cigarette, it looks as though Denise begins crying.
Denise wore a light blue blazer over a white t-shirt with stripes, and rolled up blue trousers with a pair of chunky wedge shoes.
Matty, meanwhile, wore a pair of grey-tinged jeans and a dark sweater.
Other pictures from the evening showed Matty and Gabbriette as they left the restaurant together, with Matty covering his thick head of hair with a baseball cap.
In these images, Gabbriette wore a short-sleeved black top with dark coloured jeans and a pair of knee-high boots.
They made their way hand-in-hand down the stairs, apparently laughing and joking as they made their exit.
In a separate image, Denise can also be seen leaving the building, looking serious as she’s helped down the steep steps.
Prior to his relationship with Gabbriette , Matty dated Tortured Poets Department songstress Taylor Swift.
Matty and Taylor reportedly dated for one month in 2023 before things ‘fizzled out’ and they ended their breakup.
When asked about her son’s relationship with the Cruel Summer hitmaker, on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Denise joked: ‘Obviously, on pain of death can I talk about that episode.’
She then added: ‘But being her mother-in-law is a role that I am glad that I lost.’
‘Not that I have anything against her at all,’ she clarified, ‘It was just—it was tricky.’
She added: ‘Listen, you’re not allowed to say anything, and then she writes a whole album about it.’
By contrast, she opened up about her son’s engagement on an episode of Loose Women earlier this year, saying of Gabbriette: ‘We couldn’t be happier. She is everything I would want in a daughter in law.’
Gabbriette herself confirmed rumours of their engagement with a post to Instagram, sharing a snap of herself wielding a chunky great engagement ring while at a Charli XCX concert in New York City.
She captioned the post: ‘MARRYING THE 1975 IS VERY BRAT.’
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