Joanna Lumley has started to look at her life differently after experiencing a tragic loss.
The 78-year-old star, best known for playing Patsy Stone in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, admits her “time must be coming soon”.
The actress has started to think about her mortality more after seeing close friends die, which has made her reconsider how much time she has left.
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In a new interview with The Mirror Joanna revealed that several of her “beloved friends are beginning to leave”.
Seeing that happen around her has changed how she thinks about her own life.
“As you near the top of the hill you suddenly think, ‘Gosh, there’s not all that amount of time left’,” she said.
“My time must be coming quite soon, and I don’t want to have wasted a minute of being on this beautiful planet.”
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Lumley, who has been a familiar face on screens for decades now, also warned young people about fearing getting older.
While speaking with My Weekly she said she “always knew” that some great stuff in life would come along as she got older, and it did.
“I used to panic when I was young, but as I’ve got older I’ve started literally to live day to day,” she said.
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She also explained that as you get older, you also work out what matters.
“I always knew that good stuff would come along when I was older,” she added.
“When I was 18, I longed to be 30. When I was 30, longed to be 50. We mustn’t be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.”
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