Overview
- Grant says he was inadvertently sent an email in 2004 after his name in the message body triggered it to reach him instead of a mutual friend in Australia.
- The email, sent from Africa by someone he considered among his five closest friends, contained a 'paragraph of such toxicity' about him.
- He says the comments targeted an autobiographical script he had written, prompting him to copy the message back to the sender with the reply, '29 years of friendship?'
- Grant recalls the email arrived the same day he learned financing had collapsed for a film he was set to direct, as he worked on Frasier's final episode.
- He describes being devastated and resolute that 'there's no going back,' while coverage notes his career continued with films including Jackie, Logan, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, and Saltburn.