Joe Lycett has revealed the heart-breaking reason behind his fake Sue Gray report.
The comedian allegedly caused chaos in Parliament earlier this week after he leaked a parody report about the Downing Street lockdown parties.
And now the 33-year-old has revealed that his "anger" over his best friend's death prompted the joke.
"I'm angry right now probably for the same reason many other people are angry," he told fans on Twitter.
"In the early stages of lockdown in 2020 my best friend died from cancer."
Joe explained that his friend was there through his entire comedy career from tiny pub gigs up to appearing on Graham Norton's chat show.
Sadly his friend was sick with cancer for "a number of years" before Joe stepped in as a part time carer.
"I watched him slip away, gradually, over months, and all that comes with it," he wrote.
Then at the start of lockdown, his friend sadly lost his battle with cancer and Joe wasn't there because he was "following the rules" put in place by the government to curb the coronavirus pandemic.
"We had a tiny insufficient funeral, because we were following the rules, and I drove his kids away from that funeral back to Birmingham without any sort of wake," he explained.
Joe admitted it felt "unnatural and cruel and almost silly" to not honour his friend in the usual way.
The comedian said he doesn't usually get "political" with his work but felt that the current government are "about power and little else".
"To hell with my dead friend, they think, and all your dead friends and dead relatives," he said in the heartfelt statement.
"You followed the rules and we didn't but we're in power and that's all that matters so spin on it".
Earlier this week Joe tweeted a fake leaked Sue Gray report.
His initial tweet read: "BREAKING: Leaked Sue Gray report reveals shocking abuse of the rules. Hard to see how the PM can cling on after this."
He then shared a letter with the Cabinet Office letterhead with the following: "A summary of my main findings.
" A culture of Covid 19 regulation rule breaking at Number 10 Downing street.
"Games were played which were known as 'Slow Dance' and 'Pass the A******'
"A number of WhatsApp groups were established to organise gatherings, which titles included 'Definitely A Meeting' and 'Down It Street'
The fake list continued: "At one party, BLANK, a senior minister insisted all cabinet ministers get onto a table and perform Pure & Simple by Hear'Say.
"Before one of the gatherings BLANK who worked closely with the PM insisted everyone be tested and was subsequently referred to as 'Twateral Flow' by advisors."
It continued: "A video of the PM's wife at one party confirms her attendance to which she is heard saying, 'it could be as few as four and as many as sixty kids' lol.
"One advisor insisted this report makes clear 'it is categorically not a breach of the rules to be part of a human centipede if said centipede was formed prior to lockdown'."
Joe finished the fake report with: "Please forward any queries to my email ItsAllSueGravyBaby@aol.com."
Senior civil servant Sue Gray is leading the Cabinet Office investigation into a series of gatherings that took place at Downing Street during lockdown.
Twitter users retweeted and liked the tongue-in-cheek post, with a number of users admitting they thought it was real at first.
Replying to Joe's alleged message from someone within Parliament, one user said: "They didn't think the email address was slightly suspicious?"
