She moved back from London to Wales and so it was that she found herself filming the second series of the silly BBC sitcom Ghosts – in which she plays Mary, a dead witch-trial victim with a soot-streaked face and comical West Country accent – while caring for her mother, learning how to lift her out of wheelchair, stroking her hair, watching her “die every day”. When it was diagnosed, Wix thought, “So this is what life is really like: a series of terrible events.” It turned out that she had an inoperable brain tumour. Eight or 9 days after her father’s death, after a grim descent into dementia, her mother thought that she heard a gunshot on the stairs a few nights later, she thought she heard a choir and a few days after that she collapsed on the landing. In a little under two years, her best friend, her father and her mother had died. At the start of 2019, Katy Wix couldn’t imagine ever wanting to be funny again.
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