Sharon Mousley, comic Paul O’Grady’s’secret’ daughter, has expressed her family’s “devastation” over O’Grady’s passing.
In an exclusive conversation with The Daily Mail, Mousely said that they “are all devastated”. “I am, my mum, everyone is. We loved him and will miss him,” she said.
Who is Sharon Mousely?
Sharon Mousley, now 48, was born in May 1974 to O’Grady and Diane Jansen. O’Grady and Jansen were coworkers who had a short romance.
She is married to Phillip Mousely, but the year of their union has not been established. She has two adolescent sons, Abel and Halo.
Sarah Mousely and O’Grady were close friends, and she frequently appeared with him in public. One of her most notable performances was at Buckingham Palace in 2008, when she and her two children accompanied O’Grady as he earned the MBE for contributions to entertainment.
O’Grady was also present on Mousely’s wedding day and performed the Christian ceremony of giving the bride away.
About the wedding, the comedian had said, “It was a really great day. Sharon looked fabulous and Philip is a smashing fella. They fit together like a pan and a lid. She looked like a Disney princess.”
Furthermore, in his autobiography, The Devil Rides Out, O’Grady has described in detail how she felt at the time of Sharon’s birth.
“A smiling nurse showed me into a shiny ward where Diane lay in the middle bed of a row of three, beside which the tiny newborn babies lay in their cots,” he said, describing the visit to the hospital.
‘Nervously approaching the cot next to Diane’s bed, I felt the blood rush to my cheeks as I became conscious that the eyes of all the new mothers and nurses in the ward were on me,” he wrote.
