Lindsay Clancy’s Former Coworker Reveals the Emotional Side She Saw for Years Before the Case That Shocked Her

Lindsay Clancy is pictured with her then-husband Patrick and their three children.

A former colleague of Lindsay Clancy has opened up about the woman she knew for seven years, describing a labor and delivery nurse who would sometimes become so emotional during births that tears would fill her eyes.

Meg Hamp, who worked alongside Clancy at Massachusetts General Hospital, shared her memories during an appearance on Oprah Winfrey’s podcast following Clancy’s recent trial. Hamp said the reaction was not limited to births involving people Clancy personally knew — she appeared deeply moved by those moments for other women as well.

Those memories have become particularly difficult for Hamp to reconcile with the 2023 deaths of Clancy’s three young children.

A coworker remembers a very different Lindsay Clancy

Hamp recalled assisting at deliveries with Clancy and looking across the room to see her visibly emotional.

“I often remember looking up after a baby was born,” Hamp said, recalling seeing Clancy with “tears in her eyes because birth was just so emotional for her.”

According to Hamp, she never observed anything during their years working together that suggested Clancy was struggling with mental illness.

That made learning what had happened to Clancy’s children almost impossible for her to process.

Hamp recalled receiving a phone call from another colleague as reports began emerging. She recognized Clancy’s address and immediately realized something serious had happened.

“She loved her children,” Hamp said, adding that Clancy “lived for her children” and was constantly interested in parenting advice.

“It wasn’t possible in my mind that this was a person who could murder her three children.”

An earlier conversation resurfaced at trial

Meg Hamp is a nurse who worked alongside Clancy for seven years.The Oprah Podcast

Hamp also discussed an exchange with Clancy from years before the case.

During Clancy’s trial, Hamp testified that the two nurses had once discussed Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who was convicted in 2002 in the deaths of her five children before being found not guilty by reason of insanity at a 2006 retrial.

Hamp explained that the subject arose while they were caring for a patient experiencing mental-health difficulties.

She asked Clancy whether she had heard about the Yates case. According to Hamp, Clancy said she had not.

Hamp believed Clancy may simply have been too young to remember the case when it originally dominated headlines.

The trial ended without a verdict

Clancy cries in court during her trial.Boston Globe via Getty Images

Clancy’s recent trial ended with a hung jury after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict.

According to the report, one juror maintained that Clancy should be found guilty of first-degree murder, preventing the panel from reaching agreement. Prosecutors had not publicly announced whether they would pursue another trial at the time of the article’s publication.

For Hamp, the possibility of another trial is deeply upsetting.

She said she was “devastated” at the prospect that her former coworker could face proceedings again.

Hamp shares the message she wants people to hear

Clancy killed(from left) kids Cora Clancy, Callan and Dawson.Instagram/@heardwithlove

Asked what she would say to people who view Clancy simply as an evil person, Hamp paused before focusing her response on mental health.

“I think mental health can affect anyone,” she said.

Hamp argued that outward appearances — education, relationships, family life or professional success — cannot guarantee that someone will never experience serious mental-health difficulties.

Her comments do not resolve the legal questions surrounding Clancy or determine what may happen if prosecutors pursue another trial.

Instead, they provide a striking portrait of the person Hamp remembers from seven years of working beside her: a nurse who could be moved to tears while helping bring babies into the world, and a mother whose later actions remain almost impossible for her former colleague to reconcile with the woman she thought she knew.