Ross Kemp has shared details of his last conversation with Barbara Windsor, who told him that she wanted "everything to be good" in his life.
The Carry On and EastEnders actress died on Friday after a long battle with dementia.
Kemp was a long-time friend of Windsor having met on the set of EastEnders in 1994 when she began playing Peggy Mitchell.
Speaking about Windsor's debut on the Walford-based soap Kemp said: "We were being watched by 28 million people ...
"She turned around to me and said, 'Hold my hand dear'. I hold her hand. She said - 'I'm going to be sick'.
"She walked over to the corner of the market and was properly sick and then she turned it on. That's the pro she was."
Kemp, who played Peggy's son, Grant, added: "She had time for everybody, no matter who they were, what their class, whether they were royals, whether they were taxi drivers, everybody she came into contact with."
Even when the dementia was taking its toll she was thinking of others, he said.
"I spoke to her three weeks ago on FaceTime and by that time Barbara was in a very bad state".
But "she just turned around to me and said, 'I just want everything to be good for you in your life'," Kemp said.
"She was a genuinely good person and she was very, very lucky to have someone like Scott who stayed by her side and was a rock for her," he said of the late star's husband Scott Mitchell.
Kemp called for the UK Government to do more on dementia.
"Somebody develops dementia every three minutes in the UK and it's still considered a social care issue," he said.
"It's not, it's a medical issue ... it eventually, slowly takes over their entire body."
Kemp added: "We need to spend more money on research and find out how to prevent this disease."
