"We then rewind to 20 months earlier when, on a Saturday morning, he took his youngest children to the National Gallery in London. While looking at a painting of Jesus being betrayed by Judas, I sensed my body beginning to show signs of betraying me: a strange metallic tingling started to pinch my fingertips. McNally was experiencing the beginnings of a stroke that would leave him with impaired speech and paralysis on one side of his body."
"As the title makes clear, he has regrets: notably his divorces, being a part-time father to his eldest children and his public shaming of James Corden for his rudeness in one of his restaurants. But he finds delight in film, theatre and in his memories of sitting down with his staff at the Odeon after closing time as they drank beer and counted their tips. Of those late nights, McNally reflects: Nothing since has ever matched that feeling."
Keith McNally attempted suicide at his summer house in Martha's Vineyard in 2018. Twenty months earlier he experienced the beginnings of a stroke at the National Gallery in London, feeling a metallic tingling in his fingertips that preceded impaired speech and one-sided paralysis. He reflects on his 74 years of life and career, progressing from bellboy at the Hilton in London to a teenage actor and later to busboy and maitre d. in New York restaurants including One Fifth, The Odeon and Balthazar. He acknowledges regrets—divorces, being a part-time father, and public outbursts—while finding joy in film, theatre and late-night camaraderie with staff.
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