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Diary

Joan Collins’s diary: I’m in deep shock at Jackie’s death, but life goes on

Plus: Percy’s secret birthday party; the golden age of Hollywood; and a cameo in the new Ab Fab movie

7 November 2015

9:00 AM

7 November 2015

9:00 AM

I had only experienced great loss when my mother died. It was desperately harrowing, but not as harrowing as the news that my sister Jackie had passed away. My mother had suffered a long lingering illness but Jackie only told me about her cancer two weeks before she died. It was a shattering, heart-breaking blow that I still haven’t assimilated and I don’t know if I ever will really get over it.

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