Pierce Brosnan’s daughter, Charlotte, died on Friday, June 28 after a three-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was just 41 years old.
It’s almost impossible to fathom this loss for the actor, one of the nicest guys in the business, who lost his own wife Cassandra Harris in 1991 to the same illness. Brosnan adopted Charlotte when he married Cassandra Harris and always referred to her as his daughter.
A few months back when he promoted his latest film, “Love Is All You Need,” a romantic comedy directed by Susanne Blier, about a widower in his 60s who finds love again after the death of his beloved wife, Brosnan talked about what he drew on for the role.
“Well I do remember someone living through an illness a long time ago who had the greatest of grace and dignity,” he mused. “A grace under pressure and the cup was always half full, even though the news that would keep coming was always so dire and so terrible, namely my late wife. There were many emblems within this film I could identify with, being a father, being a man who loses a wife in the script to being a tragic father. Also being a single father, so those were all the ingredients that made me turn the page. The writing was so beautiful.”
Brosnan added that going back to work is what helped him get through his tragedy.
“My own personal experience was certainly one of grieving and grief, and I worked, I just worked. It was all I knew how to do and when you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there’s a certain release of it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door, the loved one never comes home because of some accident. The inertia from that is paralysis, let’s say.”
So sad. I guess it’s hereditary?
Bummer. His wife died of cancer too….breast I think.
His wife Cassandra died from the same illness – ovarian cancer – in 1991. So sad.
as did the grandmother, if I remember correctly.
Since his first wife’s death in 1981, Brosnan has been active in charity work to fight ovarian cancer. Cassandra – his first wife – was only 43 when she died. She was about 5 years older than Pierce. He was a devoted husband to her throughout her long illness from all I’ve read.
Yes there’s a hereditary element, which is why Angelina Jolie, whose mother had both breast and ovarian cancer, took prophylactic measures. She announced she is having a hysterectomy soon as well.
Brosnan is such a decent guy and this is such an unbelievable tragedy for his family, especially to go through it twice. At the press junket several months ago he didn’t say anything about his daughter’s illness although he said much about his wife’s sickness and death. I quoted some of what he said.
He is happily married again.
So sad and sorry for his loss. I wish they knew that cannibas oil cures cancer especially ovarian cancer. Our government is quite aware of it as well as the medical industry- they just don’t want to admit it because they would lose billions over night. We must educate ourselves on this and take charge to cure our own diseases instead of letting the gov’t lead us to the grave..I pray that soon there will be a day when we all stand together and fight back because there are CURES FOR CANCER AT OUR FİNGERTİPS! God Bless Us ALL!
Ohhh…so sad but just one thing keep it mind that she is well fighter…she fight against such serious diseases. At which stage her cancer get detected…??