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‘There was a lot of laughing between us, I remember that. But when I became a teenager, I rebelled against her protectiveness – it was normal enough stuff.’
He also revealed that he had seen his mother the week before she died, something he is grateful for.
‘We weren’t with her when she died but we had just been over with her the previous week. I feel very lucky about that – to have had that time.
‘The time around the funeral was a blur but people were very kind. People have always been very kind,’ Seymour added.