Two days after commenting that she was “not ready yet” to mourn the death of Willie Garson, Sarah Jessica Parker has posted an emotional tribute to her Instagram account in memory of her onscreen and real-life friend.
“It’s been unbearable,” Parker wrote of losing Garson, who died Tuesday. “Sometimes silence is a statement. Of the gravity. The anguish. The magnitude of the loss of a 30 + year friendship.” Parker went on to describe their friendship as one that allowed for “secrets, adventure, a shared professional family, truth, concerts, road trips, meals, late night phone calls, a mutual devotion to parenthood and all the heartaches and joy that accompany, triumphs, disappointments, fear, rage and years spent on sets (most especially Carrie’s apartment) and laughing late into the night as both Stanford and Carrie and Willie and SJ.”
As part of the tribute, Parker shared several photos depicting herself and Garson together both on and off-screen. Garson, who was first introduced as Carrie Bradshaw’s best friend and confidant Stanford Blatch in the series pilot, appeared regularly throughout Sex and the City’s run from 1998 to 2004 and also appeared in both feature films. Before his death Garson was seen filming scenes for the upcoming spin-off series, And Just Like That…
Wrote Parker: “I will miss everything about you. And replay our last moments together. I will re-read every text from your final days and put to pen our last calls. Your absence a crater that I will fill with blessing of these memories and all the ones that are still in recesses yet to surface. My love and deepest sympathies and condolences to you dear Nathen. You were and are the light of Willie’s life and his greatest achievement was being your Papa. These were his last words to me. ‘Great bangles all around.’ Yes. Godspeed Willie Garson. RIP. X, SJ.”
Parker’s post joins the ranks of other SATC cast member tributes to Garson, including ones from Christopher Noth, Cynthia Nixon, and Mario Cantone, who played Garson’s onscreen partner, Anthony Marentino.
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