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Richard E Grant shares sweet video dancing with late wife on one-year anniversary of her death-Kim Novak-Entertainment – Metro
She had battled cancer.
Richard E Grant remembered his wife Joan Washington a year after her death (Picture: Getty / Twitter)
Richard E Grant has shared a touching tribute to his late wife Joan Washington on the one-year anniversary of her death.
The actor, 65, shared a sweet video of him and Washington dancing together before sharing an embrace to mark the occasion.
He told his followers: ‘Still cannot compute that my beloved wife, Joan, mother of our daughter @OliviaGranted, died a year ago, this evening.
‘Holding each other’s hands until her final earthly breath. Forever dancing in my heart.’
Grant and Washington had been together for 38 years and married for 34 before her death last year, aged 71, after a battle with cancer.
The Withnail and I star had confirmed news of Washington’s death on social media last year, writing: ‘ONLY YOU! Joan – Love of my Life & Giver of Life to our daughter Olivia.
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‘Our hearts are broken with the loss of your Life last night. 35 years married & 38 together.
‘To be truly known and seen by you, is your immeasurable gift. Do not forget us, sweet Monkee-mine.’
Washington was an esteemed dialect coach with almost 40 years’ experience, who had worked with the likes of Anne Hathaway, Emma Stone and Vanessa Redgrave.
The couple had been together for 38 years (Picture: Dave Benett/Getty Images)
She met Grant when she was teaching an accent session at the Actors Centre in Covent Garden in November 1982, where the Loki actor ‘begged her to give me private voice lessons’ as he had recently emigrated from Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) in Southern Africa.
Grant recalled her price was £20 per hour, but he could ‘only afford £12’, which Washington agreed to on one condition.
He wrote: ‘She fixed me with her big monkey-eyes and said: “All right, but you’ll have to repay me if you ever ‘make it’.”’
The couple went on to welcome a daughter together, Olivia, while Grant is also stepfather to Washington’s son Tom, from her first marriage.
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