Sturgeon reveals grief over Alex Salmond’s death

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Nicola Sturgeon has said she was “hit by a wave of grief” when told Alex Salmond had died, despite their years-long estrangement. The former Scottish First Minister described feeling the loss of their friendship deeply, recalling vivid dreams of reconciliation and a lingering sadness at the reality they had become political enemies. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I still miss him in some way, the person that I used to know

00:05and the relationship we used to have.

00:06But I thought I had made my peace with it,

00:08that I had got to a point where I felt nothing.

00:12And then I got a call to tell me that Alex Salmond had died.

00:18And I started crying on the phone,

00:21and I just was hit by this wave of grief.

00:26And it was complicated because obviously we weren't just no longer friends,

00:32we were political enemies.

00:34There was no prospect I was going to be able to go to his funeral or anything like that.

00:40Yeah, it was a kind of strange, strange feeling.

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