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BevinPrince has finally spoken out after losing her husband in a bizarre accident five months ago. the previous A hill of trees The actress sat down in her first television interview since William friend was struck by lightning while on a boat trip in North Carolina. “I’m just so proud. I’m so proud that I got to do life with him,” she told ABC News on Friday, December 9. “He was by far one of the funniest people I’ve ever met in my life. He illuminated every single room he entered. You never forgot when you met Will Friend.”
“I’m so proud that I got to live with him.”
One Tree Hill star Bevin Prince gives first on-camera interview after husband Will Friend was killed by lightning.@eriellereschef has her story. pic.twitter.com/vSSLZlcSPx
— Good Morning America (@GMA) December 9, 2022
The day before July 4th, Bevin and William were visiting family at a lake near their home in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. The star recalled an approaching storm but said it wasn’t too alarming at first. “We look up and we can see the storm in the distance,” she noted. “But we’ve been there so many times and there was no urgency for anyone to get out of the water in that tie. We have observed it.”
According to Bevin, everything changed in a flash when she and her father jumped onto another boat when William was struck by lightning. “It was instant,” she said. “They rushed to him and at the time a police boat happened to be passing by, so they quickly took him to the police boat. And from what I’ve heard, you’ve put a lot of time and effort into resuscitating him.”
In what some would call a wild coincidence, but what Bevin calls “divinity,” the actress went on to say, “Right before it hit him, he lit a cigar and he looked at my dad and said, ‘If we get hit by lightning ‘Mike, this is where I want to be.’ And then it happened. I really think it was his time.” To prove her point, she added, “He was 33 years old. It was July 3rd and I believe the exact time when the lightning struck was 3:13pm. So, knowing that all the resources were there to possibly save him, I have to believe that something bigger, beyond me, was calling him.”
At the time of the tragedy, Bevin’s co-star Sophia Bush shared a photo of Bevin and William her Instagram story. In the caption, Sophia wrote: “Heartbroken and at a loss. Our family mourns the loss of one of us. Please raise @bevinaprince in any way you can. show her the love she deserves; the love her husband always showed her.”
As fans know, the former co-stars rose to fame in 2003 when the hugely popular show debuted. It ended nearly 10 years later, in 2012. However, Bevin and William weren’t married until 2016 when they got married in Turks & Caicos.
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