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One Tree Hill Star's Husband Killed by Lightning Strike
Bevin Prince is inactive reeling over the tragic death of her hubby William Friend.
Five months aft the 33-year-old was killed by a fatal lightning strike, the One Tree Hill alum addressed the incidental for the archetypal time, calling it "an absolute surviving nightmare."
"It was similar immoderate different time that we'd done a cardinal times," Prince recalled connected the 1 connected 1 With Jon Evans podcast connected Dec. 2. "The tempest was acold away, we're connected the boat, everything's fine. And then in an instant, everything has changed. There's nary normal, and there's nary playbook for it."
The histrion said astatine the clip of the accident, a nurse, a erstwhile subject subordinate and a bounty huntsman were connected the vessel adjacent to the mates and "responded truthful fast" successful trying to help. However, contempt their champion efforts, Friend succumbed to his injuries.
Prince continued, "In my mind, there was perfectly thing that could person been done. And I person to judge that this is larger than maine and my knowing astatine this time."
Friend—who tied the knot with Prince successful 2016—died connected July 3 aft being struck by lightning portion retired connected a vessel near Masonboro Island successful North Carolina. According to the National Lightning Safety Council, exigency aesculapian services attempted to resuscitate him for 20 minutes aft the accident. He was aboriginal pronounced dormant successful an ambulance, per section outlet WECT.
Prince, 39, noted that her friends person been incredibly supportive pursuing the tragedy, including her former OTH costars Hilarie Burton and Lee Norris, who she said dropped everything to beryllium by her broadside aft the quality broke.
"Will was the astir fiercely loyal idiosyncratic I've ever met successful my life, and I learned truthful overmuch from him by watching however helium treats people, and however helium shows up for them," Prince recalled. "Every azygous idiosyncratic was determination to amusement up for him and me, and truthful you've conscionable got to get up."
The Recess cycling studio founder said her grieving process is "still truthful time to day," but she refuses to springiness up and is continually looking forward.
"Some days, it doesn't consciousness OK, and I deliberation the happening I punctual myself is, I person 2 options. I tin enactment present connected this planet, oregon I cannot, and that's not an enactment for me," she explained. "I knew erstwhile Will passed, I said, ‘OK, I was fortunate capable to acquisition the benignant of emotion and enactment and concern that I cognize truthful galore radical volition ne'er feel, truthful my beingness present a service. I'm going to bash everything I tin to service the radical successful my assemblage and the radical that enactment with maine and my friends and my household and I volition proceed to amusement up and bash that."
Prince added, "That's each I know. That's each I tin do. That's the lone option."
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