Patrick Stewart’s widow, musician Sunny Ozell, has broken her silence on the legendary actor’s death at age 86.
“Today marks two weeks since Patrick passed, and the grief continues to come in waves,” Ozell, 47, wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, November 10, a fortnight after Stewart died on October 28.
Ozell continued, “But I’ve also been experiencing such deep, profound gratitude. We left nothing unsaid. He knew I loved him, and I know he loved me. Patrick and I truly, authentically saw one another, and we amplified each other’s best qualities.”
“We shared nearly two decades together, and we filled those years with so much *living*,” Ozell wrote. “I’ve been overwhelmed by the public response to Patrick’s death, and while I’m not at all surprised that he touched so many, I’m sincerely moved by the outpouring of sadness and loss.”
She concluded, “Thank you all for your condolences, they mean so, so much to me. My heart had to grow to contain my love for Patrick, and he changed me for the better, forever.”
Ozell married the X-Men and Star Trek: The Next Generation actor in 2013. He was previously married to Sheila Falconer — with whom he shares son Daniel, 59, and daughter Sophie, 54 — from 1966 to 1990 and Wendy Neuss from 2000 to 2003.
Stewart’s spokesperson confirmed his death in a statement in October.
“[Patrick experienced] a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia,” spokesperson Kelly Bush Novak said. “He has been held in the warm embrace of family and friends, surrounded by live music, prayer, tears, laughter and the kind of profound emotion that only he could inspire after a lifetime of devotion to us all. We will forever cherish the peaceful ease and reflection on his face, an enduring reminder of his invincible grace.”
Before his death, Stewart lamented his estrangement from his adult children, Daniel and Sophie. He told the Irish Independent in 2023 that the separation had caused him “significant grief.”
“Given that I’m separated from my children now, we don’t have relationships, they have become very important,” he said at the time. “I never thought that this would happen, but both my children are in their 50s, they’re not children anymore, they’re adults. And my relationship with them is practically nonexistent.”
He continued, “There’s not a day that goes by that I’m not pained by the memory of my children, who they were and by a sense of responsibility that they became who they are in part because of me and my influence or lack of influence on them.”
