Reflecting on his parent’s marriage, Grant remembered falling asleep in the back seat of a car aged 10 only to wake up and see his mother and father’s best friend “having it off” in the front seat.
Despite the difficulty of living with his father, Grant said that he still would have chosen to live with his father over his mother, who he has said was a “narcissist”.
In a new interview, the 67-year-old star of Withnail & I recalled the breakdown of his parent's marriage when he was a child, which saw his father granted custody due to Grant’s complicated relationship with his mother, Leonne Esterhuysen.
He recalled: “My mother and my father’s best friend were in the front seat of the car and stopped on the way back from a cricket match.
Grant said his father pulled the trigger but “because he was drunk it wavered so it went straight past and I fell to the ground and ran away”.
