Sheridan’s a lost soul

SHERIDAN Smith has vowed to get her life back on track after a week in which she seemed to drift from showbiz queen to lost soul.

We can reveal the nation’s favourite screen and stage star, who is taking at least four weeks off her latest West End hit because of stress and exhaustion…

PLANS to take a holiday at a health retreat to get back to her best.

ADMITTED to friends she has taken on too much in recent years and needs to rest.

MAY QUIT the UK for America like her close pal James Corden.

IS WORRIED about the impact this is having on the family of the cancer victim she portrayed in hit BBC show The C Word.

A source said: “She feels a huge weight on her shoulders right now.

“She feels guilty that she’s letting people down by not being able to cope with work. But she will prove the critics wrong.”

In January Sheridan had tweeted: “Here’s hoping 2016 is the best year yet.” It’s little wonder the award-winning actress had such high hopes for the 12 months ahead.

She started with rave reviews and standing ovations for her performance as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl.

Almost daily, she sent gushing tweets about the cast and crew and how she was having the time of her life.

One tweet said: “God, I love my job. I get to work with such a generous talented cast. And thanku to our audience.”

The self-confessed workaholic was also juggling her demanding role with filming for the much anticipated BBC drama The Moorside Project, in Leeds, about the staged abduction of Shannon Matthews.

Sheridan has a Bafta, two Laurence Oliver awards and a National Television Award to her name, as well as an OBE. But in just a few weeks her golden year has lost its lustre. Will Mellor, the co-star from her first TV success, comedy Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, said: “I think anybody would be finding it hard if you come from one place and then next minute you are the lead actress in the country. “This is how it’s been for Sheridan for the last couple of years. It would be tough for anybody to deal with that pressure. Nobody teaches you how to deal with it.” Her dad Colin, 80, was diagnosed with cancer in March. Colin and Sheridan’s mum Marilyn, both Country and Western singers, gave their daughter her first taste of the spotlight as a small girl when she would join them on stage at working men’s clubs. Sheridan is