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I now regret it because it caused the person I loved the most pain she could not bear. I should have been aware that to tell her was very wrong. It also hurts me that she was not then able to live to see my success.

— Miriam Margolyes

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In a 2020 interview, Margolyes says her mother suffered a stroke a few months after the conversation.

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