Graham Norton asked stranger to hold his hand after being stabbed: ‘I didn’t want to die alone’

metro.co.uk:

chat show host was mugged and knifed while walking home from a party when he was at drama school in London in 1989.He said that, while the experience has been useful in making him less afraid of death, recalling it and writing it down for his autobiography brought back incredibly traumatic memories.Immediately after he was attacked, Graham knocked on doors until an elderly couple answered.

He lifted up his shirt to prove he’d been stabbed, and lay down on their doormat while the man called an ambulance.‘I’m on this mat and I didn’t know I was dying, I didn’t figure that out until a little bit later, and this is so not me but I remember saying to the little old lady “Will you hold my hand?” he said.‘And it was a flicker on her face of “Oh do.