“Mom, please Sing to me some more” – GMA host Will Reeve, son of late actor Christopher Reeve, moves everyone to Tears as he opens up about the loss of his Parents that shattered his once-peaceful childhood!
Christopher Reeve’s son Will Reeve, 32, has fond memories of his mother Dana.
Dana di3d of lung c@ncer in 2006 despite never being a smoker and just 17 months after Christopher di3d.
‘Mom was always singing. Always,’ Will recalled while promoting Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story.
‘While she’s making me my after-school snack, while she’s taking me up to bed, she’s always singing.
‘Hindsight is 20/20, but I wish that I had asked her to sing more, because when I think about her, that’s where I go,’ Will said.
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Christopher Reeve’s son Will Reeve, 32, has fond memories of his mother Dana. Dana di3d of lung c@ncer in 2006 despite never being a smoker and just 17 months after Christopher di3d. Seen on Sunday at the Emmys
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‘Mom was always singing. Always,’ Will recalled while promoting Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story. Seen here with his mother in 2004
Emotional trailer for ‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’
The star is a producer on Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story.
It follows the Superman actor’s life following the 1995 equestrian accident that left him paralyzed.
‘The moments where just — the quiet moments of safety and happiness and normalcy and togetherness. We didn’t have to be in the same room, but I knew where she was. I miss that,’ Will added.
During his appearance on Good Morning America promoting the documentary about his dad’s life, Will read an excerpt from one of his mother’s journals.
The entry revealed her deep pain at losing Christopher at age 52 in 2004.
‘I found this in one of her journals — “I’ve been studying the difference between solitude and loneliness. Telling the story of my life to the clean white towels, taken warm from the dyer and held to my chest, a sad substitute for a body pulled in close,”‘ Will read, explaining that his mother sought solace in warm towels after they came out of the dryer.
He continued reading: ‘I miss most even now his hands, the expressive grace and heft of them. The heat of his hands on my skin, the wrap of his arms, two becoming one.
‘I carry the stack of towels upstairs, carefully cradling them so as not to let them tumble. Save one, still damp, the top one I had pressed against my face, which needs more time for drying.
‘That’s what she was enduring,’Will said after he finished reading the entry.
Will was only three-years-old when his father injured himself in an equestrian accident. He was 12 when his father di3d. And 17 months later when his mother di3d, he was an orphan at age 13.
‘That’s when I realized I was completely alone,’ he says in a clip from the film Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story.
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‘While she’s making me my after-school snack, while she’s taking me up to bed, she’s always singing. Hindsight is 20/20, but I wish that I had asked her to sing more, because when I think about her, that’s where I go,’ Will said. Seen Sunday
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Christopher, Dana and Will when he received his star on the Walk Of Fame in Hollywood
‘I moved in with our beloved neighbors who were our best friends,” he explained to People. ‘And that’s been such an unlikely, amazing experience for almost 20 years.’
And even though he was loved and well cared for, he still misses his parents – especially his mother.
‘My mom was maybe the most special person ever to grace this earth,’ he gushed.
‘My mom’s predilection for caregiving and showing compassion to all she encountered was innate to her. She didn’t have to wake up every day and decide to take care of our family. It’s who she was.’
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(L-R) Matthew Reeve, Alexandra Reeve Givens and Will attend The Christopher And Dana Reeve Foundation’s A Magical Evening Gala at Cipriani Wall Street in 2015
Glenn Close on Christopher Reeve friendship with Robin Williams
Will has been in therapy to deal with the tragedy and gri3f of losing his parents at such a young age and he has learned that ‘Gri3f is permanent.’
‘The people we love who we lose are gone forever from this earth, but we carry their memories, their spirit, and their values with us forever.
‘And by orienting ourselves around the love that we feel for those we have lost, we honor them. And that helps us heal.’
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