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Jason Watkins on ‘cataclysmic’ moment his two-year-old daughter Maude died


Jason Watkins, on screen in McDonald & Dodds tonight (July 21), previously told of the moment he discovered the body of his daughter

Maude died from sepsis on New Year’s Day in 2011, after developing a chest infection. Sepsis is a life-threatening reaction to an infection that occurs when the immune system overreacts and starts to damage the body’s own tissues and organs. Jason is back on screen in McDonald & Dodds tonight (Credit: Cover Images) The actor said he tried to revive Maude with CPR on the living room floor, as they waited for the ambulance to arrive.

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