Barry Humphries and I drank together and got sober together

Ross Fitzgerald and Barry Humphries at Sydney’s Catalina restaurant in 2019. 

Barry Humphries and I were friends for more than 60 years.

We first met at the Notting Hill Hotel, which was the nearest pub to Melbourne’s Monash University where I was then an often drunk student.

Barry and I drank together and got sober together.

In late 1969 we were both admitted to a suburban Melbourne alcoholic and drug addiction hospital called Delmont. The wonderful lead psychiatrist there, Dr John Moon, was a strong …