Stockard Channing is making rare comments about her current life as a “recluse.”
The beloved 82-year-old actress, who will be seen in Practical Magic 2 this year, moved to London in 2019 after the death of her partner Daniel Gillham back in 2014.
In a new essay that she wrote for the UK’s Sunday Times, Stockard opened up about moving forward with her life without her longtime love.
Stockard Channing moved from Maine to London in 2019
She wrote in the essay, “Since just before Covid I’ve been living in London. My partner, Daniel, died in 2014 and it was more devastating than I realized; it had a lag effect. The pattern of my life shifted, so I shifted my life from Maine.”
Stockard noted that the move “vaguely coincided with Trump getting elected and the way politics has changed in the US.”
Stockard is happy with her solo life these days.
“I’ve lived alone since I lost Daniel and I’m happy being a recluse. I was married four times before Daniel and they all represent epochs of me,” she wrote. “Children were thought about and, yeah, I think about them now because it’d be great to have someone taking care of me. But hey, children can be just as selfish as everybody else out there.”
What Stockard does each day…
“Lunch is my first meal of the day and I can follow a recipe, but if my ramen doesn’t work out I give it to the dog… In the evening I cook or make a salad,” she said about her food for the day.
Stockard is not worried about her appearance. She wrote, “If I’m leaving the apartment I comb my hair, but I don’t have a wardrobe of designer outfits. Well, I do, but they’re all from the Eighties and Nineties. Do I care how I look? Most actors do — although part of your job is not being self-conscious. But I’ve never considered myself as beautiful. And I’m not a celebrity ‘tart.’ I’m just me, take it or leave it.”
“Pottering is my meditation; moving things from that pile to that pile. I may read and fall asleep around 11. If I can’t sleep, it’s probably just my subconscious clearing out stuff. Do I ever feel anxious? Sure, but that’s the price you pay for getting rid of the garbage,” she said.
Stockard made a rare public appearance in 2025 while starring in a London stage play.
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