Michael Palin, 80, has opened up about his heartache following the death of his wife Helen. Just weeks after celebrating their 57th wedding anniversary and days before his 80th birthday, Michael lost Helen, his childhood sweetheart and "the bedrock of his life".Almost a year later, the much-loved Monty Python star reveals that he still feels an "unreal" sense of loss and struggles with the "foreverness of it".
Despite being cherished by fans, Michael admits to feeling lonely. Speaking about his deep sense of loss, Michael said: "It's not easy.
It is an unreal world you enter. Someone you have been with so long and every reference point in your life is connected with that person...
and suddenly they are not there, [but] you kind of fool yourself that they are there."Helen, who was mum to their three children, passed away at the age of 80 on May 2, 2023.
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