Richard E Grant’s wife ‘detonated the 20 single women he knew’ before her death-Meghna Amin-Entertainment – Metro

Richard E Grant has revealed his wife ‘detonated’ the 20 single women they knew before her death.

Grant married Joan Washington in 1986, shortly after he had moved to London from Swaziland (now Eswatini) to pursue a career in acting.

Washington was diagnosed with lung cancer in late 2020 and told that she had 12 to 18 months to live, though died after eight in September 2021.

The pair had been married for almost 35 years, and marking her one-year death anniversary in September this year, Grant shared a sweet video of himself dancing with his late wife, writing: ‘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.’

Appearing on Lorraine today, Grant spoke about ‘finding moments of happiness’ after his wife’s death, and how Washington actually insisted he must ‘find something in every single day’ that made him happy.

Grant’s wfe Joan Washington died from cancer last year (Picture: Richard E Grant/Instagram/Getty)

He shared: ‘She did this other thing where she went through about 20 women that we know who are single, and she basically detonated each one with a little comment.

‘Like, “She’d drive you nuts or she talks to much.”‘

As Lorraine Kelly highlighted how ‘special’ Washington was, Grant described her as a ‘lioness’.

This follows Grant opening up about grief, recently speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, where he said music had been an emotional support for him through his grief and was key to ‘the fantasy of finding that person you loved’.

The pair had been married almost 35 years (Picture: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images)

The Oscar-nominated actor said that the Covid lockdown had given him the ‘extraordinary gift’ of time with his wife.

‘Because of the nature of my job, you never know what you’re going to be doing next, so there’s always this low-level hum of anxiety,’ he told host Lauren Laverne.

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‘So between Covid where everything stopped… all of that time together was an extraordinary gift.

‘It meant that you had to live in the moment as much as possible rather than trying to project into the future.’

Lorraine airs weekdays from 9am on ITV.

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