Damian Lewis wrote a powerful tribute to his wife Helen McCrory a few days after the Peaky Blinders actress passed away at age 52.
In a report in The Sunday Times, the Billions and Homeland an actor reflected on the life of his ‘Lady Helen’, who he said was “an even more brilliant person than she was an actress.” He also revealed that she had “no fear, no bitterness, no self-pity” over her untimely death.
“I have never known anyone who so consciously spread happiness,” Lewis said in the heartbreaking and heartbreaking piece, explaining that nurses treating her cancer look forward to seeing her “because she made their day better.”
‘I have never known anyone who could enjoy life so much. Her ability to be in the present and enjoy the moment was inspiring. She is also not interested in looking at cloves. No real self-interest in self-reflection; she believed in looking outward, not inward. That’s why she was able to turn her light so brightly on others, “he said.
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Lewis remembers a woman who was ‘funny as hell’, but also that she could be ‘miraculously angry, foolish, dismissive’. Delicious. “Finally she was happy,” he added. ‘Always. Some people believe happiness is a right, other people find happiness difficult. It’s an elusive emotion. Helen believed that you choose happiness. ‘
In the death, Lewis said his wife McCrory showed fierce generosity and said he should ‘have girlfriends, many of them’ go to her – but with a flash of humor, adding: ‘At least try through the funeral to come without engulfing anyone. Commenting on their two children, she said: “Do not be sad, because even though I am going to sniff it, I have lived the life I wanted.”
Lewis said: ‘I miss her already. She has shone brighter in recent months than you would think even the brightest star can shine. In life we also had to get up to meet her. But her greatest and most wonderful act of bravery and generosity was to ‘normalize’ her death. “
“She showed no fear, no bitterness, no self-pity, but only the courage to go on and insisted that no one should be sad, because she is happy. I was amazed by her. She was a meteor in our lives. ‘