Jon Hamm was 10 when his mother, Deborah, died of colon cancer. He watched her suffer without knowing what afflicted her. He had to figure it out by himself. “I remember watching my father and my grandmother and my grandfather completely losing their s**t,” he told British GQ in 2015. “These people who were usually so composed, so put together, so adult. I just remember thinking, this can’t be good.” Hamm knew something was wrong when Deborah went into the restroom at the St. Louis Art Museum and didn’t return. He had to ask someone to look for her.
Shortly after, Deborah had her colon and part of her intestines removed. “It was very fast. It was incredibly hard to watch,” he said. “Life really does a number on you. I watched my mum shrivel up, and at 35.” Deborah died within a year of her diagnosis, weighing only 80 pounds.
Hamm’s time with his mother was cut way too short, but he hasn’t forgotten her role in his life. “She was a great mom from what I remember,” he told The Times. “She took care of me and set me on the right path to get me to where I am now.” Her death plucked him from the world he knew and placed Hamm in his father and grandmother’s unusual home. “We were three generations living under one roof, which is difficult in the best of circumstances,” he told GQ in 2008.
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