TV comic Matt Lucas had ‘lots of sex’ to cope with suicide of ex-lover Kevin McGee
The Little Britain star, 43, told how he would sleep with men online in efforts to get over his ex-husband's death
TV comic Matt Lucas has revealed he got over the suicide of his former lover by having “lots of sex” with men he met online.
The Little Britain star, 43, also told how he binged on food to cope after the shock death of Kevin McGee, 32.
He said in today’s Sunday Times magazine: “I think people respond in all different ways to grief.
“I thought I was very conscientious going to a bereavement counsellor and not turning to drink, which I hardly ever do — I probably have six units a year.
“I’m not going to start smoking again, I’m not going to do drugs.
“But I ended up eating lots and having lots of sex. That was how I responded.
“As much as anything I was trying to distract myself.”
Kevin was found dead in 2009 — a year after the couple had ended their civil partnership.
Doctor Who star Matt said he later suffered extreme chills before deciding to leave the UK in 2012.
He went on: “I wanted to build a new life.
“The first thing (they say) when something as terrible as that happens is not to do anything radical.
“Don’t immediately sell your house when someone dies, don’t get a new job.
“But enough time had gone by for me to think now was the time to move on.
“I thought I had to go somewhere warm, so I went to California.”
He also told how he feared that he would never be loved after all his hair fell out when he was six.
But his parents’ efforts to help his alopecia included sending him to an acupuncturist who stuck needles in his privates.
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