Who was Sean Hughes?

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"I shall go to his funeral still asking myself: who was my old friend? And why did his life turn out this way?"

Remembering Sean Hughes: ‘The sadness is he didn’t get to be old, just lonely’

Since his death, a complicated picture of the comedian has emerged. We were friends at the height of his fame and I saw his cruelty first hand. Others say that he later changed, before his drinking spiralled out of control

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It needs to be remembered that Sean Hughes was not the man one saw on TV, says Michael Hann, who had been close friends with the comedian.