{"id":55004,"date":"2026-08-27T23:06:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T23:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=55004"},"modified":"2026-08-27T23:06:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T23:06:57","slug":"tim-currys-memoir-confession-the-two-women-he-said-left-him-untethered-and-why-he-never-got-over-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=55004","title":{"rendered":"Tim Curry\u2019s Memoir Confession: The Two Women He Said Left Him \u201cUntethered\u201d \u2014 and Why He Never Got Over It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Behind Tim Curry\u2019s unforgettable characters was a deeply private man who carried family losses for decades. In his 2025 memoir <em>Vagabond<\/em>, Curry opened up about the two women who remained closest to his roots: his mother, Patricia, and his older sister, Judy. His father died after suffering a stroke when Tim was only 12, leaving behind the haunting instruction, \u201cLook after your mother.\u201d Patricia lived until 80, dying from melanoma in 1999. Although their relationship could be complicated, Curry tried to be there for her during her final months. After her death, he and Judy spent time together driving through Norfolk and scattering their mother\u2019s ashes. Those moments gave the siblings a chance to reconnect, laugh, and share the kind of bond that only family can provide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, just two years later, Judy died at 60 after battling a brain tumor. Curry later admitted that her death affected him in a way he could hardly put into words. He described Judy as his \u201conly lifeline\u201d to his childhood and roots, writing that he felt completely \u201cuntethered\u201d after losing her. Even more than two decades later, he said he still spoke to her and longed to laugh with her again. \u201cI miss Judy all the time,\u201d he wrote, refusing the idea that time automatically heals every wound. For a performer who spent his career becoming other people\u2014from Frank-N-Furter to Pennywise\u2014Judy represented the person who knew Tim before the fame. Her absence left a quiet space that no character, award, or stage could ever fill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind Tim Curry\u2019s unforgettable characters was a deeply private man who carried family losses for decades. In his 2025 memoir Vagabond, Curry opened up about the two&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":55005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":17,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55006,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55004\/revisions\/55006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}