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Four wives, a family feud - and a candid admission he was a fool for love: Inside the complicated family life of Barry Humphries - the genius behind Dame Edna Everage - after his death at 89
Barry Humphries died at 89 on Saturday
The comic was married four times, had a bitter split with third wife
Fell out with son Oscar, who dropped the Humphries name
Behind Barry Humphries' flamboyant on-stage personas was a tangled personal life, wrought with the drama and conflict of a complex man.
Humphries died at 89 on Saturday, surrounded by family, after suffering complications from hip surgery.
Married four times, with a very bitter split from his third wife, Humphries once admitted he was not a great husband in his first three marriages because 'I didn't know what to do'.
He has described himself as an 'on and off' father, and had a falling out with one of his sons, Oscar, who dropped his father's surname and angrily claimed to have been cut out of his inheritance.
Humphries has linked the failures in his private life to his childhood, when he lived a suburban family life in the very British culture of Melbourne during the 1940s and 1950s, which was also the beginning of his comedic creations.
Humphries said his own mother battled mental health problems and often said 'rather loudly at dinner parties, 'We don't know where Barry came from'.'
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