Smoking a spliff while sat down in your favourite chair seems like a pretty good way to go, and according to Paul O’Grady’s husband, that’s the last thing the late, great presenter did before passing away ‘unexpectedly but peacefully’ at his home in Kent last March.
At a packed memorial for the 67-year-old on Wednesday (18 October), Andre Portasio shared details of his husband’s final moments, and revealed that the couple had a ‘code’ for when they wanted to smoke a joint.
Portasio said: “We’d had a very ordinary day, just watching TV together at home, when Paul said he wanted to make a ‘cup of tea,’ and that was our little code for rolling a spliff. So Paul went to the kitchen to make a cup of tea, brought it back, lit it and started smoking it – and that was our last time together, the last thing we did. He passed away there in his chair.”
At the time of his passing, O’Grady’s family did not reveal a cause of death, but his death certificate has since been obtained by the Express and reveals that the presenter died from sudden cardiac arrhythmia. The British Heart Foundation explains that sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS) is when someone dies suddenly following a cardiac arrest, and no obvious cause can be found. It’s worth noting that O’Grady had suffered three heart attacks from 2002 – 2014, though.
Definitely the type of guy you would have loved to smoke a joint with, and it’s nice to think this may have contributed to his ‘peaceful’ demise (though there might be a conversation to be had for the raised heart rate and narrowing of blood vessels that comes after the first few tokes, but let’s just ignore that for now). Either way – RIP of a legend of the game.
For the time Amanda Holden caught some flack for saying Paul O’Grady ‘didn’t have a woke body in his body’, click HERE.
