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Robbie Coltrane spent his final years in \u201cconstant pain\u201d after his knee cartilage disintegrated.<\/p>\n
The \u201cHarry Potter\u201d and \u201cJames Bond\u201d acting icon, who suffered osteoarthritis and died on Friday aged 72, opened up in 2020 about his long health battles that left him wheelchair bound and in such severe agony he revealed he wouldn\u2019t wish it on his \u201cworst enemy\u201d.<\/p>\n
He told the \u201cDaily Express\u201d in one of his last interviews in 2020: \u201cI was fighting pain 24 hours a day when I was in \u2018National Treasure\u2019 and \u2018Great Expectations\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had no cartilage in my knee. It was bone on bone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coltrane, who spent the 1980s drinking heavily, had battled since 2016 to lost 7 stone after doctors warned him not slimming down could leave him a \u201ccripple\u201d.<\/p>\n
When he had shed 5 stone, he was stricken by \u201cconstant pain all day\u201d and said medics found after an exploratory operation there was \u201cno cartilage left in one of my knees\u201d, adding it had \u201ccompletely disintegrated\u201d.<\/p>\n
By 2020 the \u201cCracker\u201d actor said he found some relief after receiving joint surgery in America.<\/p>\n
Watch video:<\/strong><\/p>\n He added at the time: \u201cIt was just horrible. The relief from that pain since the operation and being able to sleep has changed my life.\u201d<\/p>\n Coltrane pulled out of an appearance at ComicCon at London\u2019s Olympia in July, with organisers saying it was due to his \u201congoing ill health\u201d.<\/p>\n Tributes to the Scotsman have poured in since his agent announced his passing on Friday.<\/p>\n They included one from \u201cHarry Potter\u201d creator JK Rowling who called Coltrane \u201cone of a kind\u201d and said they used to laugh their heads off together after he took the part of Hogwarts gamekeeper Hagrid.<\/p>\n Coltrane\u2019s agent, Belinda Wright, said on Friday evening: \u201cMy client and friend Robbie Coltrane OBE passed away on Friday, October 14\u2026 for me personally I shall remember him as an abidingly loyal client.<\/p>\n \u201cAs well as being a wonderful actor, he was forensically intelligent, brilliantly witty and after 40 years of being proud to be called his agent, I shall miss him.\u201d<\/p>\n The actor is survived by his sister Annie Rae, his two children Spencer and Alice and their mother Rhona Gemmell, a sculptor Robbie married in 1999 but divorced in 2003.<\/p>\n