{"id":236705,"date":"2025-10-31T22:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236705\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T22:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:20:18","slug":"prunella-scaless-son-shares-final-proper-conversation-with-actress-in-heartbreaking-confession-after-her-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236705\/","title":{"rendered":"Prunella Scales’s son shares final ‘proper conversation’ with actress in heartbreaking confession after her death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prunella Scales’s son Sam West has opened up about his late mothers final years, sharing he heartbreakingly hadn’t had a “proper” conversation with her in two years.<\/p>\n

Ms Scales died on Monday at 93, almost a year after her husband Timothy West passed away at 90.<\/p>\n

Mr West shared that his mother’s battle with dementia meant they hadn’t had many coherent chats recently but reflected fondly on a memory of their last conversation.<\/p>\n

The Fawlty Towers star began suffering memory difficulties in 2001, but wasn’t diagnosed with vascular dementia until 2013.<\/p>\n

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Prunella Scales’ husband Timothy West died last year<\/p>\n

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Mr west recalled how his mother was able to enjoy a celebration for her 90th birthday three years ago in an interview he did shortly before her death.<\/p>\n

“It was a very happy day,” he reflected, adding: “My brother did a beautiful poem.”<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Rosebud podcast to Gyles Brandreth, he continued: “I put out a message on Twitter a few days before saying, ‘My mum’s going to be 90, anyone who wants to send her a message I’ll make sure she gets it.’<\/p>\n

“I got 6,500 replies, which I bound. And even removing everything but the message, they made a 110 page book, which she flicked through and rather enjoyed – and wouldn’t remember of course now. But at the time it was rather beautiful.”<\/p>\n

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Sam West reflected on his mother’s final conversation recently<\/p>\n

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He recalled one memorable discussion with his mother, adding: “The last proper conversation I had with her was a couple of years ago, where she said to me, ‘How old am I?’<\/p>\n

“And I said ‘You’re 91 mum,’ and she said ’91? F***.’ Beautifully enunciated, beautifully timed.”<\/p>\n

He clarified: “It’s not quite the last conversation that we had, but it may turn out to be the last one that made any sort of sense.”<\/p>\n

Mr Brandreth pointed out that he’d hosted an event last year, attended by Queen Camilla, which Ms Scales had attended.<\/p>\n

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Prunella Scales died on Monday, almost a year after husband Timothy West’s death<\/p>\n

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He commented: “Queen Camilla came and what was interesting was that your mother seemed to recognise Queen Camilla. <\/p>\n

“Certainly they kissed and had a happy chat, and if you hadn’t known… she laughed at the jokes.”<\/p>\n

Mr West went on to explain more about his mother’s final years: “She saw my eight-year-old sing at the same church my father’s memorial was, St James’s Piccadilly, only a couple of months ago.<\/p>\n

“And the pictures I have of them together show them absolutely enjoying each other’s company.<\/p>\n

\"TimothyTimothy West and Prunella Scales | PA<\/p>\n

“She’s never really been angry or anxious, as a person with dementia. <\/p>\n

“She’s quite content I think, which is fairly extraordinary because it could be a lot worse.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prunella Scales’s son Sam West has opened up about his late mothers final years, sharing he heartbreakingly hadn’t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,830,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-236705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}