Lenny Henry fights back tears reflecting on mother’s death during tour

Lenny Henry shares pain of mother's death while on tour in AustraliaSource: BBC

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00:00When did your mum pass away? 2020. I wasn't around here when mum died, actually. I was in Canberra.

00:06Was you? In Australia, because she was poorly. And I said to the doctor,

00:10I'm supposed to be going on tour, but I can cancel it. If you think mum's going to be really, really

00:17poorly soon. And he said, you should go on your tour. She'll be fine. We've got her. We'll look

00:27after her. And I got to Canberra in Australia. And two days later, I got the phone call that

00:33she's passed away. I can't believe that. It was awful. I felt awful. I should have just stayed.

00:41So I had to go into grief counselling because I just didn't know how to handle it, you know.