23 August 2026<\/time>\n <\/p>\nRichard E. Grant will never forgive the friends who failed to offer support after his wife died.<\/p>\n
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Richard E. Grant won’t forgive the friends who weren’t there for him<\/p>\n
\nThe Withnail and I actor’s beloved spouse Joan Washington died in September 2021 aged 74 following an eight-month battle with lung cancer and after previously describing how some people they knew had crossed the street to avoid awkward convrsations, he’s now admitted there is no way he will be letting them back into his life.<\/p>\n
\nAsked if he’s forgiven any of the friends, he told the Sunday Times magazine: “I\u2019m very unequivocal, black and white, all or nothing.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI\u2019ve tried to go for the grey areas but it\u2019s not succeeded for very long. There are people that have been edited out of my life and I will never see them again. <\/p>\n
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\n“If I had done that to them, I wouldn\u2019t be able to look them in the face.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nPressed on if he could forgive them if he knew they had good intentions, he added: \u201cNo, portcullis down. Goodbye.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe 69-year-old star now “lives in a commune” after daughter Olivia and her husband Florian Herbst – who recently became parents for the first time – asked if they “could come back” following a few years living separately, having previously all shared space during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
\nHe smiled: \u201cThey asked if they could come back. So now I live in a commune. <\/p>\n
\n“The only difference is I moved from my wife and I\u2019s side onto their side. I downsized, they upsized.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nWithin his “interdependent father-daughter relationship\u201d, Richard has found “incredible” joy in the first four weeks of being a grandfather.<\/p>\n
\nHe said: \u201cSeeing your child become the parent of their child is\u2009\u2026 how do you quantify that? It is the most fulfilling thing to see.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe Can You Ever Forgive Me? actor admitted becoming a grandparent has made him think more of his own mortality, but he views i as a positive.<\/p>\n
\nHe said: \u201cWhat everybody will tell you about becoming a grandparent is that the parents do all the nappy changing, feeding, they do all that. I\u2019m spared having to be up all night, which I would love. I\u2019m just handed the baby. I get the best of it.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI\u2019ve felt that overwhelming thing that you\u2019re part of the cycle of life. You\u2019ve gone through death and now there\u2019s a birth. I instantly thought, how many Christmases will I have to share with the grandchild? That\u2019s the thing that galvanises you \u2014 how many years of life you have left.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI\u2019m 69 \u2014 the oldest man in showbusiness \u2014 so I\u2019m hoping for another 31 years, but the likelihood of that is slim…<\/p>\n
\n\u201cA grandchild underlines your own mortality but that\u2019s a good thing because you don\u2019t waste time on stuff. You have a finite amount of time ahead of you.\u201d<\/p>\n
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