{"id":3529,"date":"2024-07-22T21:26:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T21:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2024-07-22T21:26:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T21:26:58","slug":"jamie-lee-curtis-overwhelmed-with-grief-makes-the-heart-wrenching-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/jamie-lee-curtis-overwhelmed-with-grief-makes-the-heart-wrenching-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Lee Curtis overwhelmed with grief makes the heart-wrenching announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jamie Lee Curtis said some very sad things about her close friend and Curb Your Enthusiasm star Richard Lewis, who died on Tuesday of a heart attack at the age of 76.\n\n\n\n</p><p>The 65-year-old actress who played the witch in Halloween also starred with the comedian in the sitcom Anything But Love, which ran for four seasons from 1989 to 1992.<br>She posted on her main Instagram page on Wednesday after hearing the sad news that the actor had died. Bette Midler was the first to share the news.<br>\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/tearsoffaith.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/05%5C/3-22-582x1024.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-12673\"\/'>\n\n\n\n<p>Curtis posted a bunch of old pictures of herself with Lewis and wrote a long caption in which she thanked the late star for being \u201cthe reason I am sober.\u201d\n\n\n\n</p><p>This month, Jamie celebrated 25 years of being sober after struggling with an opioid addiction.<br>\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cI just learned that my friend Richard Lewis has died.\u201d I remember exactly where I was on Sunset Boulevard when I saw a billboard of him for a stand-up special. It was during the casting process for the ABC pilot Anything But Love, and I asked the casting staff to bring him in to try out for the part of Marty Gold, my best friend and maybe boyfriend.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cI thought he looked good.\u201d Someone made me laugh, which is something a strong woman can\u2019t really do for herself. I laughed out loud when he pronounced the word \u201cBundt cake\u201d wrong, but he got the part.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cHe blew everyone else away,\u201d Jamie said. They didn\u2019t pick up the pilot for the love triangle show, but they got back to me and said, \u201cThe chemistry with Richard was so great. Could we revamp the original pilot?\u201d That\u2019s how we ended up making the show for two years.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/tearsoffaith.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/05%5C/4-19.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-12674\"\/'>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was also a stand-up comedian, but he hated performing in front of real people. I, on the other hand, loved it.\u201d\n\n\n\n</p><p>He would hide his lines on props, door frames, and even my face in a close-up. He also always had his lines written on a clipboard with him. He played roles very well, it turned out. It\u2019s deep and so damn funny.\n\n\n\n</p><p>She said, \u201cWe grieved together over the death of our friend and co-star Richard Frank and over the death of our friend and producer John Ritter.\u201d\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cIn his last text message to me, Richard hoped that I could get ABC\/Disney to release another boxed set of episodes of the show,\u201d she wrote to her fans.\n\n\n\n</p><p><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><div class='\"mh-excerpt\"'><p>Jamie Lee Curtis said some very sad things about her close friend and Curb Your Enthusiasm star Richard Lewis, who died on Tuesday of a <a class='\"mh-excerpt-more\"' href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/sciencesandnatures.com%5C/jamie-lee-curtis-overwhelmed-with-grief-makes-the-heart-wrenching-announcement%5C/%5C%22" title='\"Jamie' lee curtis overwhelmed with grief makes the heart-wrenching announcement>[&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3531,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions\/3531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</a></p></div></figure></p></figure></p>