When actor and comedian Katy Wix’s best friend suddenly died, she was plunged into grief. But five years later she reveals how his death has changed her for the better
At first, I didn’t understand what happened to my best friend. We spoke on a Tuesday and then he was dead on a Thursday.
When I first met him, I was standing under the stairs of the maths block with another girl. He walked past and I said, “We’re contacting the devil, wanna watch?” He put down his bag and nodded. The girl and I took each other’s hands, closed our eyes and began slowly counting backwards from 30. When we got to 11, a teacher with bulging eyes said, “What’s going on here, then?” We quickly dropped our hands and I looked at my shoes and said, “We were contacting the devil, sir.” The teacher paused and said, “Well… don’t.” I was 13, he was 14.
