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In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2024
Kristin Davis is grieving the nonaccomplishment of her father.
The Sex and the City actress shared connected Nov. 18 that her dada Tom Atkinson precocious died pursuing a decade-long conflict with Parkinson’s disease.
“My Dad passed distant precocious and the household gathered for the solemnisation of his beingness that helium had near elaborate instructions for,” Kristin captioned the Instagram station that included photos of Tom. “It was a beauteous solemnisation with a jazz band. We each learned caller things astir him, due to the fact that helium pb an bonzer life.”
The And Just Like That star—who is ma to children Gemma Rose, 11, and Wilson, 5—also honored Tom’s beingness arsenic a researcher and educator.
“He was calved successful a compartment connected a stream successful North Carolina and ended up giving speeches each implicit the satellite astir his probe successful psychology,” she continued. “He was calved to beryllium a teacher and loved it truthful much. He was superb and agleam and radical loved him.”
Kristin went connected to explicit gratitude for her ma Dorothy Davis and her dad’s aesculapian team, who each looked aft him adjacent the extremity of his life.
“I deliberation astir the devotion with which my parent cared for him (and his doctors and nurses and location wellness care!),” she wrote, “and I’m truthful grateful for the enactment helium got, and the perseverance helium showed successful a precise existent and hard struggle.”
“I cognize galore of you are astir apt caring for radical successful your life, and I cognize however [much] emotion and vigor it takes,” Kristin shared. “Thinking of our full household and particularly my Mom.”
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In a last connection to him, Kristin added, “We emotion you dada and we are truthful grateful you lit up our lives and near america with truthful much.”
Following the quality of her dad’s passing, Kristin’s Sex and the City costar Cynthia Nixon showed up successful enactment of her friend.
“Kristin, this is truthful beautiful,” Cynthia commented connected the post. “He would beryllium truthful arrogant to beryllium honored by you successful this way. And I cognize it means a batch to your mom, too. You were specified a trooper astatine enactment some earlier and aft helium passed. I tin ideate however precise hard that [must] person been.”
“You are and ever person been specified an astonishing girl to some your parents, arsenic you are an astonishing ma to some your kids,” she continued. “I anticipation you tin find clip to beryllium bully to yourself and instrumentality the abstraction to grieve for him for yourself. I emotion you.”
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