Jimmy Carr discusses losing his ‘very funny’ mother when he was aged 26 as he says ‘the opposite of grief is forgetting her and I don’t want that’

Jimmy Carr has opened up about the loss of his late mother Nora and how he has navigated grief since she died when he was aged 26.

The comedian, 54, was incredibly close to his mum who passed away aged 57 after a battle with pancreatitis in 2001.

Speaking about his ‘very funny’ mum on the High Performance podcast this week, Carr said the ‘opposite of grief is forgetting her and he never wants that’.

Jimmy said that he opposes the idea of people thinking grief is something ‘you get over or through’.

‘You walk with it,’ he said. ‘It’s still there now and it’s

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