Patrick Stewart’s widow has broken her silence two weeks after the actor died at the age of 86.
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Sunny Ozell, 47, took to Instagram to share both her sadness from her loss and gratitude to his fans and supporters.
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‘I know he loved me’
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“Today marks two weeks since Patrick passed, and the grief continues to come in waves,” the musician wrote in the caption of Wednesday’s post, along with a photo of the couple, her smiling as she wrapped her arms around the X-Men star.
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“But I’ve also been experiencing such deep, profound gratitude.
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We left nothing unsaid.
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He knew I loved him, and I know he loved me,” she continued.
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“Patrick and I truly, authentically saw one another, and we amplified each other’s best qualities.
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We shared nearly two decades together, and we filled those years with so much *living*.”
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‘Touched so many’
Stewart died on Oct. 28 death following “a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia,” his spokesperson Kelly Bush Novak said.
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“He has been held in the warm embrace of family and friends, surrounded by live music, prayer, tears, laughter and the kind of profound emotion that only he could inspire after a lifetime of devotion to us all,” Novak added.
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“We will forever cherish the peaceful ease and reflection on his face, an enduring reminder of his invincible grace.”
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Ozell noted that she has been “overwhelmed” by the public’s response following the death of the Star Trek alum, noting that she is “not at all surprised that he touched so many,” and is “sincerely moved by the outpouring of sadness and loss.”
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She added: “Thank you all for your condolences, they mean so, so much to me.
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My heart had to grow to contain my love for Patrick, and he changed me for the better, forever.
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Family estrangement amid their love story
The couple married in 2013, five years after they first met when she worked as a waitress at a restaurant in New York City.
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The acclaimed stage actor was previously married to Sheila Falconer — with whom he shares son Daniel, 59, and daughter Sophie, 54 — from 1966 to 1990, and Wendy Neuss from 2000 to 2003.
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In his 2023 memoir, Making It So, Stewart acknowledged their 39-year age gap.
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“It was not lost on me that in some quarters, eyebrows were raised at me marrying a woman younger than my own children,” Stewart wrote, per E! News, but pointed to their recent 10th wedding anniversary as “a testimony to our enduring and very real love.”
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Also that year, Stewart revealed he and his children no longer spoke, telling the Irish Independent in 2023 that their estrangement caused him “significant grief.”
“Given that I’m separated from my children now, we don’t have relationships, they have become very important,” he shared at the time.
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“I never thought that this would happen, but both my children are in their 50s, they’re not children anymore, they’re adults.
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He added, “There’s not a day that goes by that I’m not pained by the memory of my children, who they were and by a sense of responsibility that they became who they are in part because of me and my influence or lack of influence on them.”
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