'I Just Don't Give a Damn ' ; Hannah Davies Speaks to Spike Milligan's Best Friend On Dealing with His Depression, Memories and Looking After the Great Comic's Legacy.

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HE used to start screaming when he was about to go into depression.

"Spike screamed a lot and then he would go very, very, quiet and not leave his office for days. I used to push notes under the door.

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'I Just Don't Give a Damn ' ; Hannah Davies Speaks to Spike Milligan's Best Friend On Dealing with His Depression, Memories and Looking After the Great Comic's Legacy.

"I started to get to know when it was happening. He used to get terrible feelings of loneliness."

A self-assured no-nonsense woman Norma Farne, 71, attributes her ability to cope with dealing with one of the most supposedly difficult men ever in showbiz to her Northern sensibility and her "I just don't give a damn," attitude.

Spike Milligan affectionately called Norma his "Damager" and their relationship, as manager and friend, was the longest the thr...

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