Richard E. Grant recalls how his 'hilarious' wife Joan Washington ruled out eligible women for him before she died - including his idol Barbra Streisand — Daily Mail

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Richard E. Grant recalls how his 'hilarious' wife Joan Washington ruled out eligible women for him before she died — including his idol Barbra Streisand

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However, dialect coach Joan died in September 2021, just eight months after being diagnosed with stage four lung cancer.

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If she was born now they would have been able to save her, but they couldn't then. So exactly at this turning point of having got this lead role and first movie ever in my life it was absolutely underpinned by this terrible tragedy that happened to us. But we now have a daughter... we're incredibly close."

He lamented

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She was pregnant and in the last week of rehearsal, she went into labour prematurely at seven and a half months and our daughter was born. She only lived for half an hour because her lungs were too undeveloped."

Articulating the heartache, Richard disclosed

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I have no woolly spiritual delusion that she's hearing this, or that I'm going to get a response, but it somehow keeps the connection going

Richard said

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