The comic’s wife Lizzie Spender and his family gathered by the 89-year-old’s Sydney hospital bedside this week.
is the mother of Humphries’ two sons: former tabloid star turned art curator Oscar and video game creator RupertHumphries has previously admitted, somewhat ruefully, that he has been a far more present figure in his grandchildren’s lives than he was for his own children.
Humphries has blamed many of the issues that plagued his relationships on alcohol. Last year he said: “For over 10 years of my life, I had a serious alcoholic illness. I finally put the cork back in the bottle in my late 30s and haven’t touched a drop from that day to this.
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