“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.”
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.
