Richard E Grant throws star-studded party after dropping friends over wife’s death
Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Richard E Grant has shed some light on who remains in his friendship circle after admitting some people were “edited out” of his life over their handling of his wife’s death. Joan Washington, the wife of the Withnail and I actor, died in September 2021 aged 74 following a stage four lung cancer diagnosis. In a recent interview, Grant revealed that he unfriended people who had avoided him in the wake of her death, adding that would never forgive those who kept their distance during that tough time. “There are people that have been edited out of my life and I will never see them again,” he said in an interview with The Times. “If I had done that to them, I wouldn’t be able to look them in the face.” Just days after the interview, Grant made it clear which …









