I really enjoyed reading this, being a long-time fan of Ms. Rigg. Fortunately LGUS is a free access website:

Diana Rigg remembered

Rachael Stirling recalls her mother’s last months – and remembers her enormous sense of fun, whether pulling pranks on stage or dancing until dawn on her 80th birthday

London Guardian U.S. by Rachael Stirling 24 Oct 2021

Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in The Avengers, 1968. Photograph: Getty Images

(excerpt)

..... Mama was a truth-teller. She loathed lies and liars more than anything on Earth. Being caught telling an untruth by my mother was one of life’s great humiliations. She would shame you to the core. Just like her secret daytime TV heroine, Judge Judy.

She was also Very Naughty. I can’t remember which poor actor it was that had to take her hand at the end of a play, after she’d copped it in the plot, and deliver a grief-stricken speech to the Corpse of Mother, but she had a warm wet frankfurter in her palm waiting for him.

Oh she was fun. One of her school reports reads “Diana has been tiresome in the dormitory”. Well, I went to boarding school and I can tell you this is code for “Diana was having too much fun”.

She once took a very recognisable national treasure to a sex shop. He had confessed to her that sex with his wife was on the wane so she took him to Soho, marched into the emporium and loudly instructed: “GRAB A BASKET, DEAR!”

Free access article: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/oct/24/diana-rigg-rachael-stirling-interview-edgar-wright

(warning – Ms. Rigg was a bit....free...on occasion, with profanity!)