Damian Lewis has opened up on grief after the death of his wife, Helen McCrory, in April last year after a battle with cancer.
McCrory died from breast cancer in April 2021 at the age of 52, and the Homeland star as shared his thoughts on the ‘energy’ of grieving.
He described losing his wife of 14 years, with whom he shared two children, as a ‘very fertile, very creative, raw, open time, as well as being flattening and difficult and sad’.
Lewis told The Times magazine that only people who had experienced grief would understand, explaining: ‘For four or five months, you’re physically drained. Helen was ill for four-and-a-half years.
‘They say that the first day of diagnosis of an illness that could be terminal is your first day of grief. You are in a state of semi-grief while the person is still alive because there is always the sense that something might go wrong at any point.’