McElhone keeps tabs on sons via web
Monday November 09 2009
Natascha McElhone has revealed she oversees her sons' homework on the internet when she is away working.
The Californication star is single mother to Theodore, nine, Otis, six, and 12-month-old Rex afer her husband Martin Kelly died from a heart attack aged 42 last year, and she relies on technology to keep in touch.
Natascha told The Daily Telegraph: "I oversee their homework and listen to piano practice, and Rex tries to lick the screen to show me how much he misses me."
She revealed: "I can afford to work for three months of the year, and spend the remaining nine months being a mother. I am lucky."
"My parents are happy to help, and I set up lots of play dates for the children, a sort of whirlwind of activity while I'm working away."
Natascha, 37, recently travelled to Angola to work with Unicef in its campaign to help tackle neonatal tetanus around the world.
She revealed: "Everyone has lost someone. In the course of our trip, I don't think we met a single woman who hadn't witnessed the death of one of her children. I may have lost my husband, but I don't have the same challenges that these women face every day."
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