Victoria Mary Clarke, wife of the late Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan, shared his last words to her as she marks his first anniversary. MacGowan, who died last November at 65, passed away peacefully with his wife by his side after battling encephalitis and pneumonia.
Victoria Mary Clarke has revealed Shane MacGowan’s last words to her as she prepares to mark his first anniversary next week: “I love you.” The Pogues legend died last November at the age of 65, prompting an outpouring of national grief. His wife Victoria was by his bedside when he passed away in Dublin’s St Vincent’s Hospital, having battled encephalitis and pneumonia.
In an exclusive chat with the Irish Mirror, Victoria said: “The last thing we said to each other was ‘I love you’, which is all you want, really. For me and Shane, a lot of our communication was unspoken anyway. We were just very happy to be together. We would say, ‘I love you’ a million times a day. We said it so much, we both knew there was never any doubt. “I don’t think, ‘Oh f***, I wish I’d said this, or that’. Because I probably did say it, and if I didn’t, I can say it now and I feel he will hear it, and get it, and understand.” A year on, she says she struggles with how they are now in “different realms” after their love story of 40 years. The artist and writer said: “I want to be with him. Whether I’m with him there, or he’s with me here. “I miss him here. I want to see Shane. I want to touch him. I want to hold his hand and see his eyes and kiss him. I want to hear his laugh – so funny. I want his physical self, because of all those things.” However, she feels she can communicate with Shane even now, as his force was so strong she can sense his presence in the afterlife. She added: “I will talk to him a lot, I talk to him all day long. Sometimes I actually feel him viscerally present. “I went to see Bob Dylan the other day and I could feel Shane right there, really enjoying it. If I closed my eyes he could be sitting there, watching it
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