Damian Lewis
That’s how moving he talks about his wife, Helen McCrory
Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory had been married since 2007.
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“Harry Potter” star Helen McCrory died of cancer at 52. Her husband Damian Lewis praised her with touching words in the “Sunday Times”.
A few days ago Damian Lewis (50, “Homeland”) announced the cancer death of his wife Helen McCrory (1968-2021). For the Sunday Times of April 18th the actor wrote a moving article about the late “Harry Potter” actress. In it he remembers her as “my duchess, my little one” and calls the screen star “royal in her very own way”.
For her fellow actors she was “Dame Helen”
“Royal” was above all her reputation in her business, wrote Lewis in the British Sunday newspaper. Therefore, many would have given her the nickname “Lady Helen”. In addition to her skills as an actress, his wife was “an even more brilliant person”.
He had “never known anyone else who was so consciously spreading joy” and was able to enjoy life so much: “Your ability to be in the present and enjoy the moment was inspiring.” Lewis also describes his late wife as extremely funny.
In the end, however, she was a happy person. “Some people believe happiness is a right, some find it difficult to be happy,” he said. The “Peaky Blinders” actress believed in “that you choose to be happy.”
Helen McCrory gave her loved ones new courage before she died
Before her death, Helen McCrory was neither afraid nor bitter or pitying herself. She told her husband that he should have new friends after her death, “many of them”. She added in her typically humorous way: “At least try to get the funeral over with without snogging anyone.”
Her two children together, 14-year-old Manon and 13-year-old Gulliver, also wanted to comfort the dying London-born woman. “Don’t be sad,” she said to them. “Even if I’ll give up the spoon soon, I’ve lived the life I wanted to live.”
The fact that his late wife “normalized” her own demise is what Lewis described in his essay as her “greatest and most extraordinary act of bravery and generosity”. In short, McCrory “armed him and her children with the courage to keep going” – and “insisted that nobody is sad because she is happy.”