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Strauss on 'deep guttural grief' after death of wife

Former England captain Andrew Strauss talks to the You, Me and the Big C team about coping with the death of his wife Ruth, who had a rare form of lung cancer.

He explains that his experience of grief is "completely different" to how he thought it was going to be, saying: "I thought I was going to be in bits for the first few weeks. But I was surprisingly functional to the point where I thought, 鈥榠s there something wrong with me here?鈥�

"But then it hits you, either for ten minutes or an hour, and it鈥檚 deep guttural grief that I鈥檝e never experienced before in my life."

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