Veteran actor has no regrets about controversial claims that tragic cellist died from lethal injection in assisted suicide
Miriam Margolyes has defended her controversial decision to reveal what she believes is the truth about the early death of the great British cellist Jacqueline du Pré. In her new memoir the actor claims that a mutual friend was responsible for secretly assisting the suicide of 42-year-old Du Pré, who was suffering the serious effects of multiple sclerosis.
It is, Margolyes argues, now her duty to speak out, three decades on, although she knows some readers will question her right to tell such a private story.
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