Rupert Everett is 'quite isolated' after country move
Rivals actor Rupert Everett has admitted he's living a "completely different" life since moving to the English countryside and is now "quite isolated".
Rupert Everett is living a "completely different" life since moving to the English countryside and is now "quite isolated".
The 67-year-old Rivals actor moved to Wiltshire to care for his elderly mother Sara, who died in 2025 at the age of 91, and he has continued living in the village with his husband, Henrique, but Rupert is adamant he's enjoying the peace and quiet and the connection to his family.
He told Hello! magazine: "I'm living a completely different life now. I spend it quite isolated, but not in a bad way. I'm very happy.
"I love living in Wiltshire and I love nature, so it's good. When you have your parents die in the same village you live in, you get attached to it somehow. It feels like a part of you."
Rupert previously admitted he felt empty after his mother's death but he's glad he was able to be there for her in her final years and it was a "privilege" to be by her side when she passed away.
He told The Telegraph newspaper: "What I’m feeling now is … emptiness. Because there’s a vibration there when your mother is alive, which is the vibration of blinkered, unconditional admiration ...
"It’s like the sound of a motorboat in the distance, you know? Always whirring away, always there – and then suddenly it’s not. And that vibration?
"No amount of AI or machinery is ever going to be able to recreate it, because it’s the umbilical affection that a mother has for her child."
He went on to talk about his loss, adding: "She was 91 and she was ready to go ... [She had] wonderful [carers]. But she was about to become unmanageable in the house, and I’d always promised her that I wouldn’t either put her in a home or let her die in hospital. Still ...
"Palliative care is not for sissies. But, you know, there’s actually something rather beautiful about watching someone waning and disappearing, so on the whole my mother’s death was very nice.
"My older brother [Simon] wasn’t there but I was, and it’s a great privilege, really, to be around your parents when they die."
