Laura Benanti: Actress says she went on stage while having miscarriage

Broadway prima Laura Benanti has said she performed connected signifier earlier this week portion having a miscarriage.

"I knew it was happening. It started dilatory the nighttime before," the Tony Award-winning histrion wrote connected Instagram.

"If it had been our archetypal loss, oregon adjacent our second, I apt wouldn't person been capable to spell on.

"But unfortunately, I americium not a alien to the symptom and emptiness of losing a pregnancy."

She added that it was "a way I person walked before, manus successful manus with my husband".

"But this clip we walked it alongside immoderate of the kindest, astir loving humans I volition ever person the grant to stock abstraction with," she added.

Benanti, 43, who has appeared successful TV shows Nashville and Supergirl, was performing for 2,000 radical connected a Broadway-themed cruise, which besides features Alan Cumming and Jeremy Jordan.

She continued: "Thank you to everyone successful that assemblage for the grace your beingness allowed. For lifting maine retired of my grief for that Holy hour...

"Thank you to my friends and chap performers for rallying astir maine and truthful graciously accommodating my changing needs."

She besides thanked the band, crew, producers and "that small psyche for choosing maine arsenic your home, adjacent for a abbreviated time".

She and hubby Patrick person 2 children, 1 of whom was calved past twelvemonth via a surrogate.

"My hubby and I are heartbroken but we volition determination done this unneurotic arsenic we, and truthful galore others, person done before," she went on.

"I stock each of this, not to garner sympathy oregon attention, but to punctual the galore radical and families who person and volition endure successful this mode that determination is nary shame successful this benignant of loss. That you are not alone. And to punctual myself arsenic well."

There was enactment connected Instagram, including from chap performer Randy Rainbow, who is besides connected the cruise. He said: "You are singular successful each way. All my emotion to you and Patrick."

During her career, Benanti has been nominated for 5 Tonys, winning for Gypsy successful 2008.