The heartbreaking details of how comedy legend Victoria Wood spent her final days were previously revealed, following her untimely death.
The comedy legend sadly passed away in April 2016 aged 62, after a battle with lung cancer. Victoria was best known for her comedy series Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV, as well as her sitcom Dinnerladies.
A few years after her death, pals of Victoria – whose career is celebrated today (December 21) on Victoria Wood: The Secret List – shed light on her final days.
The comedian died nearly 10 years ago (Credit: SplashNews.com)
Victoria Wood’s final days revealed
In Jasper Rees’ 2020 authorised biography Let’s Do It, Victoria’s friends spoke about the final chapter of her life.
It is understood that Victoria spent her last days at her home in Highgate, North London. There she was cared for by her two adult children, Grace and Henry, sister Rosalind, and also close friend Piers Wenger.
Before she was allowed home for palliative care, Victoria was visited by Dame Julie Walters in hospital in 2016. According to Julie, she found Victoria to be in a state of “determined denial”.
She explained: “Vic said: ‘I just need to get this managed – the pain. And then I’m going to write something.’ They were sending her home to die in fact, but she wasn’t going home to die.”
Julie, who became pals with Victoria during their student days, added: “It was her way of dealing with it. Otherwise you have to face, okay, this is the end. She didn’t want to do that.”
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