‘Not much time left’: TV icon Joanna Lumley makes sad confession

British TV legend Joanna Lumley made a heartbreaking confession about her life after turning 79 last week.

British TV legend Joanna Lumley has made a sad confession about her life.

The sitcom icon, best known for starring in Absolutely Fabulous, celebrated her 79th birthday last week.

To mark the occasion, she opened up about her own mortality during an interview with BBC Radio 2, admitting that she doesn’t believe she has much time left.

“As you near the top of the hill, you suddenly think, ‘Gosh, there’s not all that much time left,’” said the star.

Dame Joanna Lumley has made a heartbreaking confession about her life. Picture: Getty.

“My time must be coming quite soon, and I don’t want to have wasted a minute of being on this beautiful planet. I used to panic when I was young, but as I’ve got older, I’ve started to live day to day. With age, you work out what matters. I always knew that good stuff would come along when I was older. When I was 18, I longed to be 30. When I was 30, I longed to be 50. We mustn’t be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Lumley opened up about suffering with prosopagnosia, a condition that impairs the ability to recognise the faces of people she’s known for years, even family.

“I’ve got this weird thing with faces, I’ve got face blindness. It’s called Prosopagnosia.”

She shared that she has certain methods of coping with the issue to help make social gatherings less awkward.

Lumley travelled to Australia last year as part of her critically acclaimed live tour. Picture: Supplied.

“I have to know who people are, I have to know in advance. I always say ‘Please tell me who’s going to be there’ then I can match the name to the thing. It’s not about meeting many people, it’s completely different. It’s followed me and I never knew what it was. I’d try a test. I’d look at somebody and then I would shut my eyes and see if I could see their face in my head. And I couldn’t.”

Despite her confession about her life, there’s no signs of Lumley slowing down. She recently joined the cast of Netflix’s hit series Wednesday, playing Grandmama Addams in the upcoming second season.

And late last year the legendary star arrived in Australia to perform the Sydney leg of her critically acclaimed live tour, Me & My Travels.

Originally published as ‘Not much time left’: TV icon Joanna Lumley makes sad confession