Victoria Mary Clarke: ‘I took Valium, Xanax, anything to get me through Shane’s funeral. There was a tsunami of grief, but also love’

Victoria Mary Clarke often spoke to her husband, Shane MacGowan, about death. But she says neither truly thought that the day would come when it was he, and not her, who would die first. Despite the Pogues singer’s long-term health problems, which were associated with dependence on alcohol and — for many years — hard drugs, both were convinced that he would outlive her.

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