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Monty Python star Sir Michael Palin has opened up about his will, as he admitted in a heartbreaking interview, his children will "know where to find what they need to find should I die". The 82-year-old was married to Helen Gibbins for almost 60 years before she sadly died two years ago from chronic kidney disease. He's now spoken about his own death during an interview on the Marie Curie podcast.

Sir Michael admitted, "I do think about death, and the family is rather wonderful about it: 'Have you made a will? Can I be in your will? I've made my will and all that. My family, my children, know where to find what they need to find should I die."

The star has three children with Helen: Thomas, 56, William, 54, and Rachel, 50. He told listeners he had given them all of his passwords in case he "gets run over by a bus."

"However fit you are, anything might happen," he noted. "But I don't dwell on mortality. I dwell on life."

Sir Michaell, who met Helen when they were both teenagers on a summer trip to Suffolk, added: "I'm 82 now, which is longer than any Palin male has lived for 200 years. I keep fit, and I'm working, fortunately, and doing some quite difficult stuff, such as filming and all that.

"I kid myself that I'm going to be alright, and yet I know that I won't because you feel tired at certain times. You're slightly unsteady as you get out of bed, and you think, 'What's happening?' Well, the old car's getting a bit rusty."

Sir Michael has been through some health issues in recent years, and he underwent open heart surgery in 2019 to repair a valve.

Opening up about the life-saving surgery, he shared: "That saved my life, really. And so I've been through that, which I think is quite important - to know that your body is vulnerable. And the older you get, the more vulnerable it is."

He also shared how he struggled to imagine how he'd survive without his beloved Helen by his side.

Sir Michael added, "There was a time when I didn't think it was going to get better. I thought, gosh, it's just going to be poignant days. I'm going to break down into tears every now and then.

"It does get better, and it does adjust. And after two years, now I feel I could think of Helen. I'm surrounded by her anyway. I've got photos. I haven't got rid of anything to do with her. The family embodied what she was to them, and that's all that made it much, much easier."