Joely RichardsonNip/Tuck’s Joely Richardson has revealed she has no regrets about giving up her role in the show to concentrate on looking after her daughter, Rosie.

Rosie was diagnosed with a rare circulatory condition shortly after her first birthday in 1992 and mum Joely wants to be around when Rosie undergoes a series of related operations.

Joely told the Daily Mail recently: “When you sign a contract to make a TV programme for the next five years, you don’t know what’s going to happen down the road and what lies ahead for you. But the fact is that things happen beyond our control and now I want to be here in England with Daisy - not just for all the tougher stuff, but on a regular basis.”

“For the past three years, I’ve been with Daisy for maybe six months of the year - I would be in America for five months over the summer and she would join me during the school holidays. At other times, we’d try and fit her school holidays and my filming commitments together. But it just got to a point where I couldn’t make it work any more. It all got too much. I couldn’t juggle any more.”

“I’ve worked hard for many years and Nip/Tuck was a great job. But I just couldn’t carry on with it for the sake of my conscience - or for my desires as a mother. I thought long and hard, but in the end, giving it all up was a no-brainer. How can you sleep at night, how can you feel anything in your heart about the people you love if you are unable to make this sort of decision?”

“It’s a difficult moment when you realise you are going to leave. It was scary in that there was a real chance they could have sued. I spoke to a couple of people in similar situations - who wanted to leave a show before the end of their contract - and it really is no joke. If a company sues you it can affect the next ten years of your life.

“It’s a very lonely moment when you make that call to them. There was a part of me that thought, well, if we end up with just a one-bedroom flat to our names that’s just the way it’s going to have to be.”

“Surgeons and hospitals have been a big part of our lives. We were always told that Daisy would have to have more surgery when she got older. The time has come. I love my work. But I had to be in two places at once and I thought, ‘If it were all over tomorrow, what would I regret?’ [I would regret] not being here for Daisy.”

Daisy’s condition mainly affects one legs and isn’t life-threatening so Joely is not ruling out continuing to work in the UK - or even a possible return to Nip/Tuck in the future: “I do really love my work but as to whether I’ll ever go back to Nip/Tuck, who knows? It depends how everything sorts itself out next year. We’ll have to see at the time.”