‘You did everything you could’ Phillip Schofield comforts mum fighting to keep son alive | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV

This Morning presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby conducted a heartbreaking interview with Hollie Dance about her son Archie Battersbee who doctors believe is brain stem dead. The 12-year-old is at the centre of a High Court dispute where a judge is set to decide whether his life-support treatment should continue. An emotional Phillip told Hollie “you did everything you could” in a bid to comfort her. 

Archie’s parents Hollie and Paul Battersbee are waiting for a High Court judge to decide if the child’s life-support treatment should end. 

The youngster was found unconscious following an incident at his home in Southend, Essex, on April 7. 

He is being treated by doctors at the Royal London Hospital who have said he should be disconnected from a ventilator. 

But his parents want their son’s treatment to continue and their lawyers have argued that until his entire brain stem is dead, the child is still alive and could make a recovery. 

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“Sitting by your son’s bedside is the most important thing in the world as you don’t know how much time you have left,” Holly told Hollie. 

Hollie started breaking down in tears, adding: “Every moment is precious and I am having to go to court all day and I am not getting back to the hospital some days until 7.30pm.” 

“It all seems so horribly brutal,” Phillip added. “The medical experts have said there is no sign of hope, what have you got as his mum?”

Hollie said one medical expert disagrees with the hospital and claimed Archie has tried to hold her hand in recent days.