Actress Alicia Witt breaks silence over tragic death of parents

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Actress Alicia Witt poured her heart out on Facebook over the death of her parents who died after the heat failed in their Worcester house.

“They were brilliant educators, deeply kind, curious, intuitive, wise, young at heart, funny — there will never be enough adjectives to describe them,” the 46-year-old wrote Tuesday.

Her parents, Robert, 87, and Diane, 75, were found dead in their Worcester home on Dec. 20. The heater was not working. The actress, who is also a musician and known for roles in the original “Dune,” “The Walking Dead,” “Two and a Half Men,” “Nashville” and “Orange is the New Black,” said it all “still doesn’t feel real.”

An official cause of death has yet to be determined, but Witt said she tried to help, but her parents pushed back.

“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 (a cousin) involved. Knowing as soon as I heard the detective’s voice on the other line that they were gone,” she wrote.

Witt — a classically trained pianist — said it’s difficult to share that her parents refused most help.

“I hadn’t been allowed inside my parents’ home for well 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,” she said.

Witt added her 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,” she added.

As the Herald reported last month, Witt’s parents were both ailing in recent years and their house was in disrepair.

Now the actress said she must live with the reality she’ll “never hear their voices again. Beginning the rest of my life of finding them on the breeze, in a song, in a dream.”

She thanked those in Worcester, especially Mercadante Funeral Home, for helping her grieve in peace. “Thank you, also, to all those who have reached out with your memories about my parents,” Witt wrote.

Still, breaking her silence was difficult.

“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,” she wrote.

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