Troubled son of Diana Dors made an emotional phone call to tell his daughter he loved her before his shock death

  • Jason Dors Lake died days after his 50th birthday last week at his London flat
  • His daughter Ruby said they spoke weeks before and he said he loved her
  • Jason's life was marked by difficulties with drugs and alcohol since childhood 

By Jack Newman For Mailonline

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The son of screen legend Diana Dors told his daughter he loved her in a moving telephone call before he died last week.

Jason Dors Lake, the youngest son of the actress and singer, was found in his west London flat just days after celebrating his 50th birthday after relapsing into alcoholism.

His daughter Ruby has now revealed she last spoke to her father about a month before the tragedy in an emotional phone call.

Jason Dors Lake (left), the son of screen legend Diana Dors, died last week aged 50 after telling daughter Ruby (right) how much he loved her

Jason Dors Lake (left), the son of screen legend Diana Dors, died last week aged 50 after telling daughter Ruby (right) how much he loved her

The film siren, pictured with Jason when he was just three days old, died when he was 14

The film siren, pictured with Jason when he was just three days old, died when he was 14

She told the Mirror Online: 'He just said that he loved me very, very much. He said that he had a conversation with my boyfriend, that he was a very lovely man and that he was very happy that I was happy.

'It was a really lovely conversation actually.'

Jason died penniless after battling alcoholism for many years and Ruby has now set up a fundraiser to help pay for his funeral.

She said: 'My dad did love a big party and I'd like to give him a big party. Anything that is left over is going to go to a number of dad's favourite charities.' 

Jason had openly spoken of his turbulent upbringing and the legacy of problems with alcohol and drugs it left him with.

Ruby said: 'He said that he had a conversation with my boyfriend, that he was a very lovely man and that he was very happy that I was happy'

Ruby said: 'He said that he had a conversation with my boyfriend, that he was a very lovely man and that he was very happy that I was happy'

His mother (above) scandalised the nation with her wild sex parties in the 1950s with her first husband Dennis Hamilton. The parties continued through her second marriage and her third with Lake

His mother (above) scandalised the nation with her wild sex parties in the 1950s with her first husband Dennis Hamilton. The parties continued through her second marriage and her third with Lake

But Ruby says she wants her father to be remembered for his kindly nature, good heart and love of animals. 

She said: 'He gave love to everyone he met with his warmth and generosity. He was an open and free being who has been set free from this earth.'

Mr Dors-Lake was only 14 when his glamorous mother – dubbed Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe – died from cancer and, five months later, his father, actor Alan Lake, shot himself dead outside his son's bedroom.

Before then the young boy had been exposed to his parents' decadent lifestyle which, he admitted, involved 'smoking pot when I was nine' and being given champagne in his bottle to 'keep me quiet' when he was still in a pram.

Friends say Mr Dors-Lake had planned a birthday trip with his girlfriend to Colombia last week but hadn't been allowed on the plane because he was too drunk.

She went without him and he returned to his council flat in Notting Hill, west London.

Jason, pictured at the unveiling of his mother's blue plaque, died penniless after a long battle with drink and drugs

Jason, pictured at the unveiling of his mother's blue plaque, died penniless after a long battle with drink and drugs

Mr Dors-Lake (right) tried to follow his mother (left) into a career as an actor, also dabbling in composing and recording music

Mr Dors-Lake (right) tried to follow his mother (left) into a career as an actor, also dabbling in composing and recording music

'I think he was just drinking a huge amount and had taken some pills and just didn't wake up,' said someone who knew him well.

'A friend had to climb through the window to check he was okay and found him.

'Jason had a hedonistic lifestyle so this was always on the cards. I know he's been living a precarious life for quite a long time and he goes up and down.'  

His mother scandalised the nation with her wild sex parties in the 1950s with her first husband Dennis Hamilton.

The parties continued through her second marriage and her third with Lake.

Mr Dors-Lake tried to follow his mother into a career as an actor, also dabbling in composing and recording music.

He had a role in the long-running daytime TV drama Doctors and a minor, unbilled, part in Rupert Everett’s 2001 romantic comedy South Kensington.

More recently, he appeared in a number of documentaries about his mother. For most of the time, though, he was unemployed and living on benefits.

Donate to Ruby's crowdfunder here.

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