OHMYGOSSIP — Victoria Wood refused to believe she was dying during her last days.
The acclaimed comedy star – who died of cancer in April 2016, aged 62 – spent her final days listening to BBC Radio 3, watching ‘MasterChef’ and writing a sketch about her sock draw, as she refused to accept she was dying.
Dame Julie Walters – her long-time friend and collaborator – claims Victoria was in a state of “determined denial”.
She recalled: “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. It was her way of dealing with it. Otherwise you have to face, ‘OK, this is the end’. She didn’t want to do that.”
Victoria was cared for by her friend Piers Wenger, sister Rosalind and her children Grace, 32, and Henry, 28, all of whom were asked to avoid talking about her health.
In the new biography ‘Let’s Do It’, by Jasper Rees, Victoria’s friend Paul Roberts remembers telling the TV star that she “didn’t look well”.
In response, she told him: “I don’t want to hear that.”
He added: “We had a lovely afternoon – once I’d cottoned on to the fact Vic was happy denying the inevitable.”
Meanwhile, Piers, another of Victoria’s close friends, lived with her for two weeks towards the end of her cancer battle and he remembers them watching episodes of ‘MasterChef’ together.
He shared: “She said to me days before she died, ‘I might not get rid of it. But if I can just get on my feet and get back to work…'”
On the other hand, Rosalind remembers Victoria writing a new comedy routine about tidying her sock drawer.
She said: “I was cursing that I couldn’t record it. It was absolutely hilarious.”
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