British actress and producer Jill Freud has died at the age of 98, the Daily Mail reported.
“My beautiful 98-year-old mother said her last goodbye“, said the star's daughter, TV presenter Emma Freud.
According to her, her mother died “surrounded by her children, grandchildren and...her pizza“.
“She told us all to go to hell so she could finally sleep. And then she never woke up. Her last words were "I love you," her daughter recalled.
As a child, Jill Freud was evacuated to Oxford and spent three years with the family of writer C. S. Lewis. She became the inspiration for Lucy Pevensie, one of the main characters in "The Chronicles of Narnia."
For 30 years, the actress directed two theater companies. Her last film role was as a Downing Street housekeeper in "Love Actually." by Richard Curtis.
According to her family, Jill Freud had a glass of red wine and a bag of crisps every day for lunch, and during the coronavirus pandemic, at the age of 93, she took tap dancing lessons every morning with her friends while in self-isolation.
Jill June Freud was born with the surname Freud to her husband Clement Freud, a writer and television presenter and grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Jill Freud is survived by five children, 17 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.