Damien didn’t know his father. ’Neither did I. Though I thought I did,’ chirps Mary in a comfortable Yorkshire accent you want to trust. He was a photographer on Jersey. Mary met him while working on the island, and was absolutely besotted with him. ’I’m one of those people: it’s all or nothing with me.’

besotted (adj) : made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied – source: Interview: Damien Hirst