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'Peaky Blinders' actress Helen McCrory lost her life in 2021 after battling cancer. Her co-star and friend Cillian Murphy was devastated.

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"I still can't believe she's not here. It doesn't make sense. I've never lost anyone like that—who was young and a friend," said Murphy. "It was very confusing. But she was magnificent. She was an absolutely magnificent person," he added.

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Vin Diesel's close friend and 'Fast and the Furious' co-star Paul Walker died in a car crash in 2013.

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"We grew up in the business together, and we became famous together, and we represented the biggest franchise together, and he was my partner," said Diesel.

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The death of Michael Jackson in 2009 had a huge impact on his friend Diana Ross. "I can't stop crying, this is too sudden and shocking. I am unable to imagine this. My heart is hurting. I am in prayer for his kids and the family," said the singer in a statement.

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Ross always defended MJ, despite the controversies that arose before and after his death. In 2019, she tweeted: "This is what's on my heart this morning. I believe and trust that Michael Jackson was and is A magnificent incredible force to me and to many others. STOP IN THE NAME OF LOVE."

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The Notorious B.I.G.'s death in 1997 shocked the world of hip hop, and indeed had an impact on his fellow rapper, producer, and friend Sean Combs.

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Biggie's death still haunts Diddy, who said: "I think I'll always feel some sort of responsibility because I'm in this thing with him. He's my artist ... He was supposed to go to London that night and I let him talk me into not going to London and staying in LA. That's something that really bothered me throughout my life. Sometimes you have to really go with that decision in your gut and in my gut it was like, 'You need to get on the plane.'"

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Snoop Dogg lost his friend and fellow rapper Tupac in 1996, after he was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting.

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Snoop Dogg was close to the family. He revealed how Tupac's mom comforted him, when her son was in hospital, saying, "My baby ain't never seen you weak. I don't want you to be weak in front of him. You go in the bathroom and fix yourself up and you go back in there and you talk to him and you tell him how you feel."

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Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger became friends after co-starring in 'Brokeback Mountain' in 2005. The Australian actor died in 2008.

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A decade later, Gyllenhaal opened up about the death of his friend. "Personally, it affected me in ways I can't necessarily put in words or even would want to talk about publicly."

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Jerry Seinfeld and his friend and fellow comedian Garry Shandling worked together for many years. Shandling sadly passed away in 2016.

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Jerry Seinfeld's wife posted the following on Instagram: "We have been crying/laughing/crying through Jerry's last day with Garry all afternoon. There is no better tribute and no better reminder of what a beautiful, gentle, BRILLIANT sweet angel Garry Shandling was."

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Singer and actress Dove Cameron lost her friend and Disney co-star Cameron Boyce in 2019. Her bestie was just 20 when he passed away.

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"He was just someone who should never end, let alone end so early and disturbingly and unjustly," said Cameron.

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In 1978, The Who guitarist Pete Townshend lost his bandmate and close friend Keith Moon. The band's drummer tragically died of an overdose.

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Townshend did try to help his friend, but to no avail. "I was obsessed with trying to keep Keith alive. It was quite clear that he was on a downward slide, and there was very little I could do. He was a very complicated character," he said.

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The R.E.M front man lost his close friend and fellow musician Kurt Cobain in 1994. Stipe said that he even "constructed a project to try to snap Kurt out of a frame of mind." Michael Stipe "sent him a plane ticket and a driver, and he tacked the plane ticket to the wall in the bedroom and the driver sat outside the house for 10 hours. Kurt wouldn't come out and wouldn't answer the phone," he said.

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Singer Aaliyah tragically died in a plane crash in 2001. Timbaland said the following about his friend: "She was like blood, and I lost blood. Beyond the music, she was a brilliant person, the [most special] person I ever met."

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist lost his bestie, actor River Phoenix, outside The Viper Room in 1993. Flea accompanied the actor in the ambulance to the hospital the night he overdosed.

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Grateful Dead's Bob Weir lost his bandmate and close friend Jerry Garcia in 1995.

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The two founding member of the Grateful Dead had a lifelong friendship. "I'll never step out of Jerry's shadow nor he out of mine," said Weir.

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Cory Monteith was not only Lea Michele's co-star on 'Glee,' but he was also her dear friend and boyfriend. In 2013, he sadly died of a drug overdose. Michele got a number 5 tattooed in Monteith's memory (after his football jersey on the show).

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers front man lost his bandmate and friend Hillel Slovak in 1988. The original RHCP guitarist and the singer had been friends since they were teenagers.

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The rappers' friend, Nate Dogg, tragically passed away in 2011. The two collaborated on numerous occasions and were close pals.

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In 2007, Miley Cyrus lost her childhood friend, Vanessa, who died of cystic fibrosis. Cyrus' "Just Breathe" ribcage tattoo was made in her friend's memory.

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The actress lost her friend, Instagram star Olivia Hope Lorusso, to cancer in 2017. "I think that's probably one of the biggest things that shaped me as a person because it genuinely made me look around and be grateful for everything I have, and made me grateful for not only my family but life itself, being young and really embracing everything you've got in this current moment," said Millie Bobby Brown.

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Demi Lovato is yet another celeb who tragically lost a childhood friend. The singer's best friend, Trenton Stout, was a victim of bullying and took his own life at age 13.

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The man who wrote and produced 'The Sopranos' lost his good friend actor James Gandolfini in 2013.

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Chase eulogized Gandolfini following his death, saying: "I think your talent is that you can take in the immensity of humankind and the universe, and shine it out to the rest of us like a huge bright light. And I believe that only a pure soul, like a child, can do that really well. And that was you."

Sources: (Nicki Swift) (Ranker)

See also: Stars who succumbed to heart attacks

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