Geri Halliwell relives being told dad was dead during ‘Hamlet’ class: ‘It suddenly woke me up to my own mortality’
Geri Halliwell says being told her dad had died during an English class woke her up to her “mortality”. The 51-year-old singer’s father Laurence died from a heart attack in 1993, a year before Geri joined the Spice Girls and in a new interview she said she “ironically” learned of his death during a lesson William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ – which tells of the titular Prince of Denmark’s anguish when his uncle slaughters his father and marries his mother. Geri told the Sunday Times: “They pulled me out of the English class to say my father was dead, which was so ironic. “It suddenly woke me up to ...