Richard E. Grant posted an emotive video to Twitter Friday, asking his followers to “try and find something that lifts their spirits”.
After a difficult year that saw Joan Washington, his beloved wife, succumb to lung cancer in September, The Withnail And I Star, 64, encouraged his followers “beat Covid” with a call for them.
Richard says in the sweet clip that “Shortly before my spouse died, she challenged my daughter (and me) to live happy. Each day we’ve tried to find something positive to cheer us up.”
Candid. Richard E. Grant sent a video on Friday to his Twitter followers, asking them to try and bring their spirits to life with something he created.
He added: “At this end of an absolutely horrible year. It is my hope that you will do the same wherever you may be, and beat Covid, as well as all of its ill effects. Have a fantastic Friday.
He captioned his video with the following: “Something to do this weekend… for you and yours!”
Richard’s wife, Richarda, was diagnosed with stage-4 lung cancer just eight months prior to her death.
He told The Daily Mail that he was astonished to have been able to see and be known by Joan.
It’s so sad that the Withnail and I star has revealed what advice his wife Joan Washington gave him – she died of lung cancer in September after a long battle.
Richard says in this sweet clip that “shortly before my wife passed away, she challenged my daughter (and me) to live happy. Each day we’ve tried to find something positive to cheer us up.”
“To have loved each other for nearly four decades was the best ride of my life.”
He stated that she accepted her diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer two days prior to Christmas and was clear-sighted, calm, and completely without self-pity.
He added: “It has been my privilege, to be at your side, sharing our eight months together. This has enabled us to communicate everything that we could want and need, so that, when Olivia and I asked two weeks back if we would let you go,” we unambiguously said “yes”.
Joan and Richard met after Joan offered to tutor Richard in private voice lessons.
The couple married in 1986. They have a daughter, Olivia (32), and a stepson, Tom (38).
Sweet: Richard met Joan when Joan agreed that she would give him private voice lessons. (Photo taken at Wimbledon Tennis club, 2019).
It comes after Grant, who had been visiting his 90-year-old mother Leonne in southern Africa when the Government enforced new travel restrictions to fight the Omicron variant, got stuck in quarantine.
In now-deleted Tweets, he said he feels ‘punished’ after being forced to quarantine for Covid in a hotel that charges more than £228-per-night and serves ‘grim food’.
Grant posted pictures of a packaged tuna and cucumber sandwich, a sausage casserole and fish and chips, which he said would cost less than £30 to buy elsewhere.
Richard gave an insight about his quarantine at his hotel after returning from South Africa. He was visiting a country which had been on the redlist.
Grant spoke in an online video and said that he used to host the television show Richard E. Grant’s Hotel Secrets. Grant stated: “I was going to South Africa to see my mother, 90 years old, but got caught up by red region Covid restrictions.
‘I understand there are security costs in the hotel and you’ve got to pay for two Covid tests, but £228 a day to receive three meals of this very poor standard, in a supposed four-star Holiday Inn hotel, beggars belief.’
Grant said he was ‘confounded’ that a ‘non-quarantine Holiday Inn nearby costs £89 incl breakfast’ and asked: ‘How does Gov [ernment]Justification for this expense to the traveller: ‘Hospitality ‘… is punishing!
Not the best: Grant posted pictures of a packaged tuna and cucumber sandwich, a sausage casserole and fish and chips, which he said would cost less than £30 to buy elsewhere