Natascha McElhone Speaks After Husband's Sudden Death: "I'm OK"
The Times:
Sorry I'm late!" says Natascha McElhone, parking a pram in the corner beside me. "And I had to bring him because the childcare didn't work out." The day we meet, McElhone, the British actress and star of Californication and The Truman Show, is on the front pages of some of the papers at her premiere of her new movie The Secret of Moonacre, a magical adventure story. It was her first public appearance since her husband died suddenly last May when she was pregnant, and she went with her three kids - including Rex, her newborn baby son....
I ask how she has coped. "I'm OK," she says. "I'm really OK, through necessity I think. Do you know, I'm just terribly grateful for everything I have." So she doesn't feel miserable all the time? "No, I don't think I have any right to feel miserable all the time. I don't know why, it's just happened to me that, aside from feeling utterly grief-stricken and bereft and devastated, the chinks and shards of light that shine through are so strong and so buoyant I can't ignore them." Thank God for that, I say. "Thank God for that," she echoes. 'I don't know why that is - that they're so bright that they reach me. Thus far, anyway."
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