Treat Williams’ daughter keeps ‘forgetting that he’s not coming home’ in touching post month after actor’s untimely death
Ellie Williams, the daughter of late actor Treat Williams, paid a touching tribute to her late father one month after his unexpected death, saying she keeps forgetting “he’s not coming home.”
The “Everwood” star died in a motorcycle accident in Vermont on June 12.
“I have been home with my family in Vermont for a month now, but it feels like just yesterday that I frantically got on a plane home after I got that phone call,” Ellie captioned a series of Instagram snaps with her dad Wednesday.
“It feels like he’s just away filming. However, I keep forgetting that he’s not coming home this time.”
Images included in Ellie’s heartbreaking post include ones of her and the actor when she was a child, including one snap of her shaving his beard.
“This love is a once-in-a-lifetime love,” she continued. “A father’s incomprehensible love for his daughter, and a daughter’s boundless love and complete admiration for her father.”
“Dad, I love you more than words could ever describe. You have given me the best life imaginable, and I could not have ever dreamed of having a better father,” she added.
Williams was 71 at the time of his death.
“He was making a left or a right, [and] a car cut him off,” Treat’s rep, Barry McPherson, said in a statement shortly after. “I’m just devastated. He was the nicest guy. He was so talented.”
McPherson added that Treat — whom he described as “the heart of Hollywood since the late 1970s” — was “an actor’s actor” whom “filmmakers” also “loved.”
Two days after her father’s death, Ellie spoke out about the grief she was facing.
“This is a pain I have never felt,” she told her followers alongside an old photo of the “Hair” star. “I am absolutely shattered.”
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Despite her “terrible heartbreak,” she made sure to thank “everyone who has sent messages and kept [her] family in [their] hearts.”
Treat had been married to Ellie’s mother — actress and producer Pam Van Sant, 68 — since June 1988.
The longtime couple welcomed 30-year-old son Gill Williams in December 1992, and Ellie arrived in September 1998.