Roger Moore’s daughter reveals James Bond star’s heartrending final diary entries and how he joked until the end of cancer battle
ROGER Moore told how he feared joining friends “in the great cutting room in the sky” in poignant final diary entries as he battled cancer, his daughter has revealed.
His heartrending reflections on mortality left Deborah in “floods of tears” when she read them.
“It was just so incredibly poignant.
“We didn’t think he was going to die - he didn’t think he was going to die – until the very last week. Dad’s illness came on quite quickly.”
Yet despite undergoing a gruelling course of chemotherapy after being diagnosed last Christmas, the star kept joking until the very end.
Deborah added: “He still had his sense of humour and was still joking with the nurses. He never, ever complained.
“He was amazing.”
Sir Roger died in May at his home in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. His children and wife of 15 years, Kiki, 77, were at his side.
Deborah, 53, and her brothers Geoffrey, 51, and Christian, 44, are his children by his third wife, actress Luisa Mattioli, 78.
Shortly before his death the star had finished writing a book about ageing called A Bien Tot - French for see you soon.
In it, Deborah reveals he described himself as “an old fart” and made up his own OAP text speak - BTW: bring the wheelchair. IMHO: Is my hearing aid on? BYOT: Bring your own teeth. GGPBL: Gotta go, pacemaker battery low.
Moore took over from Sean Connery as James Bond in 1973.
He starred in seven movies over the following 12 years.
In 2012, the actor admitted that he “regretted” basking in the sun as a young man – as he had suffered a string of skin cancers in later years.
He told The Sun: "I (wish I) would... have given myself a warning about having too much sunshine. I've had so many skin cancers as a result.
"No one thought about sun screen or creams in my younger days. Even when they started to give warnings, I thought, 'Well, that won't happen to me.'
"I would get sunburned so I did not have to wear make-up in front of the cameras. Every leading man was sunburned."
