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Patricia Neal Was a ‘Very Strong-Willed Woman’ After Surviving Multiple Strokes and Coma
Patricia Neal was a 'very real person,' her friend Stephen Michael Shearer exclusively tells Closer of the late star, who endured multiple health issues.
Though she was a revered Tony and Oscar winner who shared the screen with legends including John Wayne, Gary Cooper and Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal never outgrew the simpler pleasures of a quiet night at home. “We’d watch movies over at her house, and we’d laugh, and we’d cry, and we’d talk about films,” Stephen Michael Shearer, author of Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life, tells Closer of the intimate moments he shared with his friend and muse, who’d often invite him to her New York apartment or home in Martha’s Vineyard. Her son Theo, at 4 months old, suffered brain damage after a 1960 New York traffic incident, and eldest child Olivia was just 7 when she died in 1962 from measles encephalitis.
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