The reality TV stars, who found fame on Gogglebox, will explore the world of medical cannabis in a new documentary, Can Cannabis Save Our Son?, which is set to air next Monday at 9pm on Channel 4. The programme will see the couple looking at whether medical cannabis could alleviate their 18-year-old son’s suffering. Max has battled epilepsy since he was four and endures over 100 seizures a day. He takes a variety of drugs to control his condition and, as well as the support of his parents, has full-time professional care.
I would just love to have a conversation with him
Dom Parker
Steph emphasised the show is not a “scientific documentary” but a “personal film”, in an interview with the Daily Mail.
“Medical cannabis is produced in laboratories and all the psychotics and hallucinogens, anything that some might regard as the fun stuff that gets you high, all that has been taken out,” she said.
Speaking about opening their private lives up for the public in the new documentary, Dom, 54, admitted: “It was a big moral decision. Should we expose the most vulnerable part of us and our vulnerable son and our vulnerable family like this?”
“But we felt compelled to,” she said. “Even if I didn’t want to do it because I wanted to hide under a stone, I felt I had to.”
Dom, who married his wife in 1998, said the hope of their
