Celebrated actor Richard E. Grant has opened up about several harrowing moments from his childhood, revealing that his alcoholic father once tried to shoot him while they were at home when he was just 15 years old.
He revealed: “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.
Richard - who lost his beloved wife to cancer in 2021 - reflected on the "incredibly complicated relationship" he had with his late mother and receiving a "very terse email" from her while grieving his late wife.
Speaking on Davina McCall’s Begin Again podcast, the Saltburn and Withnail & I star, 67, reflected on his difficult upbringing, sharing that his father, who struggled with alcoholism, pulled a gun on him when he was a teenager but the trigger faltered.
In another devastating memory, Grant recalled the moment he accidentally discovered his mother was having an affair with his father’s best friend.
