Richard E Grant pays tribute to his late wife Joan Washington on their 37th wedding anniversary - tw
Richard E Grant paid tribute to his late wife Joan Washington on what would have been their 37th wedding anniversary on Wednesday.
Dialect coach Joan tragically passed away aged 74, in 2021 eight months after she was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer.
The couple met in 1986 and married later that year. They shared a daughter Olivia, 34.
Sharing a post to Twitter, the actor, 66, remembered Joan with a series of photos from over the years.
Alongside the montage, he wrote: ‘Posthumous 37th Wedding Anniversary today. Am profoundly grateful for the decades long partnership I shared with the extraordinary love of my Life, Joan Washington.’
Remembering: Richard E Grant, 66, paid tribute to his late wife Joan Washington on what would have been their 37th wedding anniversary on Wednesday (pictured in 2018)
Richard has been quite vocal in his grief since losing the love of his life and has admitted that he has lost friends as he battled heartbreak.
They had been together for 38 years at the time of her death.
‘Subsequent to her death, I have had people cross the road rather than talk.’he said in a conversation at The Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival.
‘Whether they think you’re going to fall apart and you’re an emotional wreck, I don’t know. But I will never speak to them again.’
He also recalled an occasion in which a couple who had lived near to his and Washington’s Provence holiday home ignored him when he waved to them.
He said: ‘As I walked towards them they both turned their heads. I thought, “F*** you.” I felt I was being punished because Joan had died.
‘They had never acknowledged it. Maybe they didn’t know how to deal with it.’
Richard announced the death of his wife in September 2021 and released a heartbreaking video of them dancing together.
Sweet: Sharing a post to Twitter, the actor, 66, remembered Joan with a series of photos from over the years
Heartfelt: Alongside the montage, he wrote: ‘Posthumous 37th Wedding Anniversary today. Am profoundly grateful for the decades long partnership I shared with the extraordinary love of my Life, Joan Washington’
The actor revealed Joan passed away the previous night in an emotional tribute that included a video of the pair dancing together and laughing before they embraced along to the song Only You by The Platters.
Richard wrote: ‘ONLY YOU! Joan – Love of my Life & Giver of Life to our daughter Olivia.
‘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.’
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