Why was Alicia Witt BARRED from her parents' home? Actress opens up on their death
More than a month after Alicia Witt's parents were mysteriously found dead, the 'Dune' actress, 46, has opened up about her relationship with them. In a post on Instagram and also on Facebook, the 'Walking Dead' cast member shared how she has been grieving after the tragic incident that "still doesn’t feel real".
"it’s been a month since i got scared, not having heard back from them, and called to have them checked on. waiting, phone in hand, praying fervently that the next call would be from them, angry i’d gotten someone else involved," Alicia Witt wrote. "knowing as soon as i heard the detective’s voice on the other line that they were gone. knowing i would never hear their voices again. beginning the rest of my life of finding them on the breeze, in a song, in a dream," Witt added.
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Witt started her career as a child actor on the 1984 'Dune' directed by David Lynch. She has appeared in famous movies and TV shows like 'Two Weeks Notice', 'Two and A Half Men', 'I Care A Lot' and others, starring alongside top Hollywood actors. She is also a trained pianist and singer-songwriter with multiple albums to her name.
"i am deeply grateful for the gift of having been able to quietly travel to Worcester earlier this month for a beautiful service and burial, to mourn and to celebrate them in total privacy. i will forever be indebted to Mercadente Funeral Home for going to great lengths to make this possible," she continued. "thank you, also, to all those who have reached out with your memories about my parents. they were brilliant educators, deeply kind, curious, intuitive, wise, young at heart, funny - there will never be enough adjectives to describe them."
A little over a month ago, Witt found both her parents deceased at their home in Worcester, after she failed to get in touch with them for several days. On December 20, Witt asked her cousin to visit her parents' house and check on them, as she was worried about their well-being. Both Robert and Diane Witt's lifeless bodies were then found inside, jolting their daughter to the core.
"the circumstances around my parents’ sudden passings have become fodder for press, and 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. there’s an awful irony in the fact that, because of the very lengths they went to in order to protect their privacy in life - that privacy has been stripped away in death. i never imagined i would have to talk about this publicly - much less, amidst overwhelming floods of grief," the actress wrote.
Witt explained why she was not allowed inside her parents' home for over a decade. "every time i offered to have something repaired for them, they refused to allow workers into their house. i begged, cried, tried to reason with them, tried to convince them to let me help them move - but every time, they became furious with me, telling me i had no right to tell them how to live their lives and that they had it all under control. it was not for a lack of trying on my part, or the part of other people who loved them," Witt said.
Witt appeared to share an extremely close bond with her parents and shared heartfelt notes about them on her Instagram. She wished them with special anecdotes on the occasions of Father's Day and Mother's Day. "my parents were not penniless. they were fiercely stubborn, beautifully original souls, and with that, they 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," Wit wrote. "i struggle, as much as i helped, with what else could i have done - short of petitioning the court system for taking control of two otherwise very sharp, very independent, very capable adults. they were a united, intertwined, indivisible force, determined to do things their own way. knowing they had each other - battling them the way i would have had to in order to do this truly felt like it would have destroyed them."
In a Mother's Day post last year, Witt had taken to Instagram to share her love for her mom. "happy mother’s day to my mom, diane ❤️ so strange to not know yet when we can plan our next visit, and i know so many of you out there are feeling the same way this mother’s day. sending love out to all the mothers - we appreciate you, we celebrate you, and we thank you for the gift of being our mother," she had written, sharing a picture.
"i had no idea that their heat had gone out. i will never understand how or why they made the choice not to tell me this, not to let me help them with this. my heart is broken," Witt wrote in her latest post. "and even if i could have had a crystal ball and looked into the future- if i could have said to them ‘you are going to break my heart and the hearts of all who love you with a worst-case-scenario ending if you don’t let us help you’ - 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," she concluded.