Hugh Grant, the star of ‘Heretic’, has shared a chilling tale of a ghostly encounter. The actor, who is a father to John, 12, Lulu, eight, and six year old Blue with wife Anna Eberstein, and Tabitha, 13, and 11 year old Felix with former partner Tinglan Hong, recalled seeing a mysterious “shimmering light” in the middle of the night while staying in an English castle.
He told HELLO! magazine: “I did see a ghost once. I was in a castle in the North of England and had a fight with my girlfriend in the middle of the night. She ran out of the room into the depths of the castle and I went out to see where she had gone. I stood on the landing at the top of the stairs and suddenly, at my feet, just on the floor, there was a white shimmering light around my feet.”
He continued: “Then it went through me, down the corridor, through a wall into the main bedroom. The next morning, I said to the woman who owned the castle that I’d seen this thing and she said, ‘I know – it’s up there the whole time.’ It was known as the Third Duchess or something. Looking back, it was the pattern that one of those big old dresses with a bustle would have made on the floor. I saw it – and I wasn’t drunk.”
Hugh Grant said he has become more open to spirituality with age
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Despite shunning religion in his teens, Hugh now finds solace in his local church as a place to escape from the “intense stress” in his life. He added: ” I was taken to church every Sunday by my parents until I was about 13. And then I said, this is too boring and nonsense and stopped going for many decades.”
He continued: “However, now, in my old age with intense stress with two many children, I sometimes go to the local church in my village in France and sit in there and ask St. Laurence to help me out. I can see why, the older you get, the more open you are to these possibilities.”
Hugh joked: “Especially as, to my horror, I now think there’s probably another dimension. I don’t want there to be as I can’t cope with the ones we have.”
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