Kate Beckinsale has shared a video of her tearing up as she sang to her mother in hospital

Kate said she is "trying to keep the Four Teens going" as she welled up while singing in an emotional video she shared with fans.

She added in her Instagram post: "I am a very poor substitute not being a very good singer.

"But I want my mum's dearest and oldest friends in her hospital room with her.

"(Sylvia) and Chris, please know I'm trying to keep the Four Teens going as best as I can from a distance and I love you both."

Kate also thanked her mother's friends for their "support and love", adding: "It is a mark of my mother's extraordinary capacity for love and deep respect for relationship history that her friendships with her early school friends are still so very current."

She added: "Love you all but most especially my mum," apologising to "anybody in the hospital subject to (her) dreadful singing."

Kate did not reveal details of her mother's condition, but previously disclosed Judy was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in 2023.

In February this year, Kate asked followers on Instagram to "say a spare prayer" for her mother.

The latest update follows a period of public concern over Kate's health, particularly around her appearance.

Earlier this month, she addressed trolls' comments on a photo she posted of herself in bikinis.

"You don't look good. I think you honestly need help," one comment read, to which Kate responded: "Yes, I do. I'm going through one of the most deeply painful times of my life. The body keeps the score."

Kate has previously faced body-shaming and medical complications herself.

In 2023, she was hospitalised after suffering a hole in her oesophagus.

Around the same time, she was mourning the death of her stepfather, Roy Battersby.