Cancer survivor John Lithgow says he’s comfortable with his demise after friend’s death: ‘I just know it’s coming’
The “Conclave” actor, 79, who has survived three bouts of cancer, said recently that he became more comfortable with his eventual demise after his friend and colleague Doug McGrath died. “I directed that wonderful New Yorker, Doug McGrath, in his one-man show that he’d written for himself.
And he didn’t show up at the theater one night because, in his office by himself at about four in the afternoon, he’d lain down, had a heart attack and died at age 64,” Lithgow revealed on the Dec.
5 episode of Rachel Martin’s podcast “Wild Card.”“It was such a traumatic thing to experience. He died painlessly and almost courteously.
He didn’t make anybody else suffer over his death except over the fact that it had happened like that,” the Emmy-winner added.When host Martin asked whether McGrath’s death changed anything for Lithgow, the actor responded, “I was startled at how soon I was able to absorb it.
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