{"id":916536,"date":"2026-06-30T19:12:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T00:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/mrs-browns-boys-star-left-heartbroken-after-major-double-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T19:12:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T00:12:54","slug":"mrs-browns-boys-star-left-heartbroken-after-major-double-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/mrs-browns-boys-star-left-heartbroken-after-major-double-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs Brown&#8217;s Boys star left heartbroken after major double loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<figure contenteditable=\"false\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/assets\/uploads\/2026-06-07\/667677_091430_updates.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Mrs Brown&apos;s Boys star left heartbroken after major double loss\"><figcaption contenteditable=\"true\" class>Mrs Brown&#8217;s Boys star left heartbroken after major double loss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dermot O\u2019Neill, who is best known for playing Grandad Harold Brown in <i>Mrs Brown\u2019s Boys<\/i>, opened up about a very painful time in his life after losing his wife and sister within weeks.<\/p>\n<p>His wife, Patricia O\u2019Neill, passed away on June 1 at the age of 60 after battling stage four cancer.<\/p>\n<p>She was being cared for at St Francis Hospice in Dublin after doctors found a few tumours in her stomach as she was told that she only got some months to live after her diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few weeks before this, Dermot\u2019s sister Patricia, aged 86, also died in the same hospice after suffering a stroke.<\/p>\n<p>The actor said the double loss has left him feeling completely \u201cheartbroken and very lonely.\u201d He shared that he is still trying to process everything and cope with the pain.<\/p>\n<p>Dermot recalled the moment he found out about his wife\u2019s death. He said his daughter called him in the early hours of the morning to give him the news. <\/p>\n<p>Even though he already knew she was very sick, he still hoped she would recover.<\/p>\n<p>The actor said the sadness feels overwhelming and that everyday life now feels very difficult. <\/p>\n<p>Dermot O\u2019Neill added that losing two close family members in such a short time has been one of the hardest experiences of his life.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Augustine Pepper<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/667677-mrs-browns-boys-star-left-heartbroken-after-major-double-loss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs Brown&#8217;s Boys star left heartbroken after major double loss Dermot O\u2019Neill, who is best known for playing Grandad Harold Brown in Mrs Brown\u2019s Boys, opened up about a very painful time in his life after losing his wife and sister within weeks. His wife, Patricia O\u2019Neill, passed away on June 1 at the age<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":916537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22033,28638],"tags":[7962,20720],"class_list":["post-916536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-browns","tag-browns","tag-heartbroken"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}