GRANT’S DIARY OBSESSION
British actor RICHARD E. GRANT has kept a diary of his life for the past 43 years - ever since he witnessed his mother cheating on his dad.
The Withnail & I star was a 10-year-old boy growing up in Swaziland, Af rica, when he caught his mum in a clinch with his father’s best friend du ring a car journey.
Grant was so traumatised he jotted down his thoughts in a notebook - sp arking a lifelong obsession with recording his daily experiences.
He tells Britain’s Live magazine, "My mother (was) in flagrante with my father’s best friend on the front seat (of the car). Being 10 years old and assuming it must be my fault for having woken up and seen what I shou ldn’t have seen, I had no idea what to do other than to clamp my eyes tig ht shut and hope I wasn’t ‘found out’.
"No one to tell. No one to talk to. No one to share with… This was th e moment at which I began keeping a diary and making sure it was hidden b eyond hiding! Looking back I can see that for me this episode was the exa ct moment when my childhood view of the world ended and my split view of the adult world began. Writing a diary was the only way I could think of to keep things in perspective and sane. And it has pretty much served thi s purpose ever since." And Grant still insists on writing down his thoughts at the end of each day: "It’s been the best way I know of keeping grounded when finding mys elf having Valentine’s Day dinner with Sandra Bernhard at Madonna’s house , sitting opposite an impossibly fragile Michael Jackson for a late suppe r at Blenheim Palace… Writing a daily diary keeps it within a reality I can get my head around."
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