Damian Lewis gives heartbreaking speech about wife Helen McCrory 9 months after her death | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV
“She was funny as hell,” he recalled, before going on to say that nurses and staff at the Royal Marsden Hospital had looked forward to her visits, stating that Helen brightened their days by asking how they were getting on, as well as discussing their lives away from work.
Writing in The Sunday Times, Damian said: “Helen would say, ‘Well, their job’s much more difficult than mine,’ and she was dying.”
He painfully went on to add that while his wife had taught their beloved children to not be afraid of what life may throw at them, instead leaving them with her “fearlessness, wit, curiosity, talent and beauty,” she also told them: “Don’t be sad, because even though I’m about to snuff it, I’ve lived the life I wanted to.”
He said: “Already, I miss her,” before saying that the James Bond’s Skyfall star had “shone more brightly in the last few months”, but had shown bravery and generosity while attempting to “normalise” her death, with the “meteor” in their life, insisting that nobody close to her should be sad.
