They are still married and Billy praises her for being 'patient' during his illness, saying last year, "I sleep like a wild animal. Laughing and singing or having fights. Pamela has to sleep in another bed. And she's a rather attractive nurse. Billy has an impressive filmography, starring in both big budget blockbusters like The Hobbit and Disney's Brave, as well as indie productions.
For Billy's 75th birthday, the City of Glasgow gifted him three enormous murals on buildings around town in honour of one of their best loved entertainers.
They've just completely stunned me," he told the BBC. In , Billy was awarded a knighthood by Prince William at Buckingham Palace for his services to entertainment and charity. In he released a documentary, Made In Scotland , in which he looked back at his life and career and reflected on his illness.
But it doesn't frighten me, it's an adventure and it is quite interesting to see myself slipping away. I don't have the balance I used to have, I don't have the energy I used to have. I can't hear the way I used to hear, I can't see as good as I used to. I can't remember the way I used to remember.
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Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews metro. For more stories like this, check our news page. Poppy Logo. In , when he was four years old, Billy's mother left her children while their father was serving as an engineer in the Royal Air Force in Burma. In September , Billy Connolly underwent minor surgery for early-stage prostate cancer. This announcement also stated that he was being treated for the early signs of Parkinson's disease. In August , his old friend Michael Parkinson said that Billy was struggling to remember who his friends were, and this "wonderful brain had dulled".
He explained that his brain now "works differently", making live comedy difficult. It was the first thing I was ever good at.
Connolly has been married to his second wife, comedian and psychologist Dr Pamela Stephenson, since She also wrote a biography about her husband, titled Billy. I was on a downwards spiral and enjoying every second of it. Not only was I dying, but I was looking forward to it. Before this, in aged 26, Connolly married interior designer Iris Pressagh. In , they divorced after 16 years, having separated four years earlier, and he was awarded custody of their children.
Mamie's father, Neil, was a Protestant, and her mother, Flora, was a Roman Catholic who "made clandestine arrangements for the children to be baptized as Catholics", although they were "formally raised as Protestants".
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