In a well-known quote, Pierce Brosnan said, “Believe me, I don’t see the cup as half full.”
Following a string of tragedies that have taken over his life, Pierce Brosnan is no longer able to conceal the pain of losing loved ones. He said that occasionally, the gloomy, sad Irish black dog lays by him.
He was a loving father who had to watch helplessly as his daughter Charlotte’s body gave in to ovarian cancer. The same illness had taken the life of his wife Cassandra 22 years earlier.
The actor said during a Stand Up to Cancer event that witnessing a loved one’s life slowly be eaten away by this terrible illness leaves an enduring impression on your psyche. As ovarian cancer took Cassie, his first wife, way too soon, he grasped her beautiful, strong, and giving a hand. Before his beautiful and witty daughter Charlotte passed away from this terrible hereditary disease just last year, dad held her hand.
Charlotte and her brother Christopher are children of Cassandra’s first marriage. However, after their father passed away in 1986, Brosnan was more than happy to adopt them and give them his surname to take over as their legal father.
They just connected as a family, according to Brosan. His first names were Pierce, Daddy Pierce, and finally, Dad. He has had amazing support from Charlotte and Chris.
When Charlotte passed away in 2013 at 41, she had just recently wed Alex, the man she loved. Not long before her battle with cancer came to an end, Pierce Brosnan walked her down the aisle, leaving her husband, children, and a heartbroken father in her aftermath.
In a statement, Brosnan said that his beloved daughter Charlotte Emily passed away from ovarian cancer on June 28 at 2 p.m. and entered into eternal life. She had her husband Alex, their children Isabella and Lucas, and her brothers Christopher and Sean all around her.
He claimed that Charlotte fought her disease with grace, humanity, bravery, and dignity. The loss of their beloved young girl has broken their hearts.
He regretfully lost two of his most important people to the same illness in a little more than twenty years. He said that they hoped a cure for this terrible illness would be discovered soon and prayed for her. They are grateful for everyone’s sincere sympathy.
She always managed to make his daughter laugh, and while Brosnan mourned the loss of his daughter, he remembered this. Charlotte was the “custodian of laughter,” according to Nancy Ellison, a close friend of the actress.
“Charlotte was a vibrant, almost sort of silly, lovely person,” Ellison continued, “and Pierce wrote to me after she died that the most vivid memory he had was of always being able to make Charlotte laugh. He hoped he could get her laughing again.
In an email to Ellison, Brosnan stated, “Just to either side lays misery and anguish.” My soul is Irish-strong, on the other hand, and my head is unbowed. I’m sure something lovely will come out of all of this.”
The actor’s agony turns him into a poet, according to Ellison, who has known him for more than three decades. She had forgotten that because he doesn’t live in sadness. But every now and then, he experiences pain, and this flowing poetry comes out of him. This heart explodes, feeling pain and yearning for beauty at the same moment.