United Kingdom, April 3 -- Richard E. Grant has used "blind faith" to get through difficult times.

The 67-year-old actor was married to voice coach Joan Washington - who died in 2021 following a battle with lung cancer - and while they went on to have Olivia, 36, together, it was when he was working on his starring role in 'Withnail and I' that tragedy struck in his personal life

Speaking on the 'Turning Points' podcast, he told 'Shout' hitmaker Lulu: "[Joan] was pregnant and in the last week of rehearsal, she went into labour prematurely at seven and a half months and our daughter was born. She only lived for half an hour because her lungs were too undeveloped. If she was born now they would have been able to save her, but they couldn'...