‘Monty Python’ Star Reveals He Abandoned Dying Wife to Film Docuseries

At the time, Helen had been suffering from a chronic illness for several years before she developed kidney failure.

While battling kidney failure, Palin traveled the world filming a Channel 5 documentary series on North Korea and Iraq.

Helen later died on May 2, 2023 at the Marie Curie Hospice in North London.

Palin recalled, “I don’t really regret it. Maybe towards the end, when I made the later travels to North Korea.

“Helen was less good then, unfortunately less good at looking after herself, and that was a somewhat difficult time.

He continued: “I don’t think she really wanted me to leave at the time, but she knew that my interest in travel and other people was very deep-rooted, it wasn’t because I wanted to get away from home – it wasn’t that at all.”

The Brian’s life The star recently admitted that his late wife’s clothes were still “in the closet” because they made him feel like she was “still here.”

Palin added that he enjoys seeing Helen’s belongings in their home because they remind him of the great times they shared together – and this was the reason he would never move out.

On the possibility of leaving the home they shared, he added: “I don’t have that feeling – at least at the moment. Everything around me has a story or something that reminds me of the time we spent together, not of a sentimental event. way.

‘They’re just the props of a lifetime. Throw away all those props and I would be in a different play, playing a different character. And I don’t want to do that.

He continued, “I know it seems strange, but I’m going to carry on as if Helen is still here. Her clothes are still in the closets. I don’t want to change my life because I don’t think she would want that either. It is still a nice house to return to, I feel her presence here.”

Palin and Helen first met when they were 16 years old. They later reunited at Oxford University and married when they were 22 years old.

Reflecting on their paths crossing again in college, Palin said, “You can see that fate was turning us very hard at that moment.”

The couple was married from 1966 until Helen’s death in 2023.