Strictly Come Dancing star, 59, said it was "tough to watch someone you love destroy himself" as he watched as David died in December 2019.Taking to his Twitter back then, Richard broke the news by tweeting: "I’m very sorry to say that @RevDavidColes has died. "He had been ill for a while.
Thanks to the brilliant teams who looked after him at @KettGeneral."And now in his new book The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss, the reverend explained that David "died of drink" at the age of 42.
In the book, he wrote: "It was really, really tough to see somebody you love destroy himself."It is like someone is drowning and you throw them a lifebelt but they are just not taking the lifebelt.
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