Pete Davidson's Sister Casey Pays Tribute to Their Dad on 9/11

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How Pete Davidson Brought His Real-Life Trauma to New Flick

Gone but not forgotten.

On the 21st day of 9/11, Pete Davidson's sister Casey Davidson shared an affectional tribute to their dad Scott Davidson, who mislaid his beingness successful the violent attacks.

"This twelvemonth much past ever I privation you could beryllium here," she wrote connected Instagram Sept. 11, on with a black-and-white photograph of her wearing Scott's firefighter uniform. "We miss you, we observe you and we retrieve you each day. Proud to beryllium your caseygirl."

The 33-year was 1 of the galore first responders killed successful the enactment of work connected that fateful time backmost successful 2001. Casey was conscionable 3 years aged astatine the clip of her dad's death, portion Pete was 7.

The Saturday Night Live alum was profoundly affected by the loss, telling the The New York Times in 2019 the tragedy was "overwhelming" and that helium ended up acting retired successful schoolhouse arsenic a effect of the trauma.

Pete, 28, aboriginal turned his symptom into a passionateness project, writing and starring successful his movie The King Of Staten Island, which is simply a semi-autobiographical communicative that follows his travel of dealing with the death of his father.

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Speaking to E! News successful June 2020, Pete shared that helium wanted to instrumentality an honorable attack erstwhile telling his story.

"It's beauteous transparent arsenic I could be," he told E! News. "We truly wanted to travel this household and calamity and however it affected them. And we wanted to amusement however you could flooded calamity done beingness experiences."

Recognizing how therapeutic The King of Staten Island was for him, Pete reflected connected the filming experience, saying it helped process his emotions.

"I deliberation erstwhile you're capable to stock a communicative similar this astatine this magnitude and with truthful galore people, it truly allowed maine to beryllium arsenic unfastened and honorable arsenic I could beryllium and it helped maine woody with a batch of my idiosyncratic demons. This was something, 1 of the goals for this movie was to let maine to enactment my past down maine and I deliberation we were capable to bash that."

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That aforesaid month, Pete paid tribute to his dada during his virtual sojourn to Jimmy Kimmel Live, sharing that helium had donated to Answer The Call and explained his family's heavy transportation to the charity.

"Answer The Call is the money that helped my household erstwhile my dada passed," helium told host Jimmy Kimmel in June 2020. "It helps for firefighters and EMS workers that passed distant successful the enactment of work and it helps retired their families."

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