Alicia Witt Opens Up About Grief After Her Parents’ Death: ‘My Aching Heart’

Opening up. Lower than one month after Alicia Witt’s dad and mom have been discovered lifeless of their residence, the actress is getting candid about her grieving course of.

“If I may wrap my arms round all of you — I’d,” the Strolling Useless star, 46, wrote by way of Instagram on Saturday, January 29. “Thanks to each one in all you who has reached out with such love since my final publish. Your phrases, your empathy and your kindness have all been deeply felt — please know I’ve learn all of them ❤️.”

Witt continued in her publish: “Thanks to the various, many, lots of you who’ve shared your extraordinarily private tales with me — your related conditions to the one I skilled/am nonetheless going by way of. This brings me to tears yet again. My aching coronary heart feels so grateful to know that we’re, all of us, not alone on this particular ache.”

The I Care A Lot actress famous in her social media add that discovering widespread floor with others in related heartbreaking conditions supplied her with “solace and unity” and that “some balm of deeper therapeutic may come from such a factor.”

She concluded her message: “I’m sending you a lot love, and I see you, and you might be positively not alone. 🙏🏻 🕊”

The “Nonetheless Sorry” songstress’ dad and mom, Robert and Diane Witt, have been discovered lifeless of their Worcester, Massachusetts, residence in December 2021. There have been 87 and 75, respectively.

“It nonetheless doesn’t really feel actual,” Alicia broke her silence about her loss on Tuesday, January 25. “It’s been a month since I received scared, not having heard again from them, and referred to as to have them checked on. Ready, telephone in hand, praying fervently that the following name can be from them, offended I’d gotten another person concerned. Figuring out as quickly as I heard the detective’s voice on the opposite line that they have been gone. Figuring out I’d by no means hear their voices once more. Starting the remainder of my lifetime of discovering them on the breeze, in a tune, in a dream.”

The Exorcist alum added on the time: “I’m deeply grateful for the reward of getting been in a position to quietly journey to Worcester earlier this month for an exquisite service and burial, to mourn and to rejoice them in complete privateness. … Thanks, additionally, to all those that have reached out along with your recollections about my dad and mom. They have been sensible educators, deeply sort, curious, intuitive, smart, younger at coronary heart, humorous — there’ll by no means be sufficient adjectives to explain them.”

Shortly earlier than Christmas late final 12 months, Diane and Robert have been discovered unresponsive after a relative carried out a welfare verify on the couple. When native police arrived on the scene, they discovered no indicators of noxious gases. Since then, the pair’s deaths have been topic to an investigation in response to Telegram & Gazette, which famous that there have been no indicators of obvious trauma. The native newspaper famous that freezing temperatures, a malfunctioning furnace and outdated residence may have contributed to the duo’s deaths.

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