Why I Had to See My George One Last Time ; It Must Have Come As a Shock When George Best Woke From His Coma to Find Two Blondes by His Bed - His Latest Lover Ros and His First Wife. Here, in Her Only Interview, Angie Best Reveals How She Was Reunited with the Man She Once Called a 'Drunken Bum' Femailmagazine

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ANGIE BEST'S pale blue eyes are red-rimmed from crying and weary from jet lag. Within two hours of arriving at Heathrow airport from her home in Los Angeles, she was at the hospital bedside of her former husband, George Best.

She'd come on Monday expecting to say her last goodbyes to the footballing icon whose alcoholism had once again brought him to death's door, but instead discovered the old fighting spirit had kicked in and, amazingly, appeared to be pulling him through.

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Why I Had to See My George One Last Time ; It Must Have Come As a Shock When George Best Woke From His Coma to Find Two Blondes by His Bed - His Latest Lover Ros and His First Wife. Here, in Her Only Interview, Angie Best Reveals How She Was Reunited with the Man She Once Called a 'Drunken Bum' Femailmagazine

Not only that, but - true to form - there was another blonde already at George's bedside, his current girlfriend Ros Hollidge.

She must have been thrilled to see glamorous Angie sweep in like a Hollywood star to steal her thunder - on the very day George regained consciousness and ate his first meal, a sorbet, no less. Indeed, hospital visitors report hearing a stunned Ros muttering in disbelief as she left: 'I can't believe she turned up just 15 minutes after me!' Still, somehow they managed to exchange pleasantries over the beeping heart monitor in the intensive care room at the private Cromwell Hospital in West London, as George lay between them and Angie wept over the state he was in.

'I was terrified of seeing George again, because I didn't know what to expect. I felt sick with anxiety and was pacing up a...

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