“Dune” and “The Walking Dead” actress Alicia Witt has broken her silence concerning “misconceptions” about her parents’ deaths after the couple was found in their Massachusetts home late last month.
Robert Witt, 87, and Diane Witt, 75, were found dead on Dec. 20 with no obvious signs of trauma. Though there were reports about the couple having issues with their furnace and subsequently using a heater indoors, no abnormal levels of carbon monoxide had been identified at the time.
Witt, 46, took to social media Tuesday and, in a heartfelt post, appeared to confirm that her parents had indeed succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning.
“It still doesn’t feel real,” Witt, also known for an arc on “Orange Is the New Black,” captioned several photos of herself and her parents. “It’s been a month since i got scared, not having heard back from them, and called to have them checked on.
“There are some misconceptions rolling around – understandably so. this is very delicate for me to write because i’m wanting to honor their privacy, which they held so tightly,” she continued.
Witt noted that her parents had not let her into their home for over 10 years and that they refused to let her help them move or repair anything in the home, instead telling her that she “had no right to tell them how to live their lives and that they had it all under control.”
Though she wasn’t the only loved one who tried to help her parents, Witt said they “were not penniless” but “fiercely stubborn, beautifully original souls” who “made choices - choices that i couldn’t talk them out of.
“I did help them, in all the ways i could - in all the ways they would let me,” continued Witt, who said she was unaware her parents’ heat had gone out.
“And even if i could have had a crystal ball and looked into the future ... i still think they would have made the same choices. they weren’t willing to make different ones. our last words to each other were ‘i love you’. that part was simple; never in doubt. they loved me so. i loved them so.”
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