The late, great Paul O’Grady spent his final few moments smoking a spliff, his widower Andre Portasio has revealed.The surprising admission came as Andre and Paul’s loved ones gathered together in a memorial service on Wednesday, 18 October, to commemorate his life, as he told guests in attendance: “We’d had a very ordinary day, just watching TV together at home, when Paul said he wanted to make a ‘cup of tea,’ and that was our little code for rolling a spliff. “So Paul went to the kitchen to make a cup of tea, brought it back, lit it and started smoking it – and that was our last time together, the last thing we did.
He passed away there in his chair.” Looking back at his life in the moving service, Andre also shared a string of anecdotes — some outrageous — as guests laughed affectionately about Paul and his lasting legacy for always making people smile.
Andre’s admission comes just seven months on since the much loved TV star died back in March 2023, in a death that devastated fans not only in the UK but around the world.
Paul died of a sudden cardiac arrhythmia earlier this year, at the end of a gruelling seven month long work schedule that had left him feeling more than a little exhausted.
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