Jamie McPhee, the wife of James Ransone, opens up about how their kids are handling life after his passing.
Jamie McPhee is adjusting to her new way of life. Jamie discussed how she is coping with the loss while raising their children, Jack, 6, and Violet, 4, less than a week after her husband James Ransone, 46, committed suicide on December 19.
“They wanted ice cream after the park,” she described how she took them to a nearby mall in an Instagram post on December 23. “Violet picked out a pink backpack. Jack made me buy and then build things at the Lego store.”
Jamie added, “For the first time in my life, it was clear that people recognized me. I heard someone behind me in the food court say, ‘ask her.’”
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The mother of two expressed gratitude that she was not approached by strangers over James' death, but she also stated that what occurred made her understand that "you never really know what people are going through."
“In many moments we looked…happy. Normal. Laughing. Smiling,” she penned. “How? Not because we aren’t grieving. We are. But because I have two beautiful, incredible children who force me *daily* to see all the love and all the light that still exists inside of this.”
In a sorrowful statement, Jamie wrote that her late husband's "devastating loss has also given so many an unbelievable gift" in "countless stories" about his life from friends and family, referring to him by his nickname, "PJ."
“There are probably a hundred thousand more I still haven’t heard of people reconnecting,” she went on. “Of friendships healing after years of silence. Of truths finally being spoken. Of old pain being brought into the light and somehow… softening.”
“In the weeks before you left us, after months of telling me nearly every regret you’d ever carried: every mistake, every f--k-up, every hurtful thing you thought you’d wrote or said, you burst into tears and said: ‘Babe, you know the most fucked-up thing of all? I actually love everyone,’” Jamie remembered. “Well babe, it turns out that despite all of it, everyone actually loves you too.”
Two days after the actor's death, an homage to him was penned, which was followed by her devastating statement. She posted a picture of herself and James to Instagram on December 21 with the message, “I told you I have loved you 1000 times before and I know I will love you again, You told me—I need to be more like you and you need to be more like me—and you were so right.”
“Thank you for giving me the greatest gifts—you, Jack and Violet,” she continued. “We are forever.”
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