Kim Cattrall remembers her missing brother: “We miss you every day”

“We miss you today and every day.” With a photo that portrays them happy as kids and a poignant message, Kim Cattrall he wanted to remember his brother on Instagram Christopher, on the day he would have turned 59. “Today would have been my little brother Chris’ 59th birthday. Happy birthday, sweet “Topher”. We miss you today and every day. Rest in peace, ”wrote the 65-year-old actress, adding the hashtag SuicidePrevention.

Samantha’s brother Sex and The City took his own life in February 2018. It was the actress herself who announced it via social media at the time, after having launched a appeal to find it, since no one in the family could get in touch with him. “It’s not like him,” Cattrall had written worriedly, explaining that she had left her phone, wallet, keys and even her seven dogs unattended at home. Police found him lifeless five days after that online appeal.

The customary thanks followed and the request for privacy, and the actress and her family have mourned in their privacy ever since. Only once did she mention it in an interview released a year after the death of her brother, who had followed that of her father with Alzheimer’s: “The losses suffered were the most important lesson”, He said. “I lost two members of my family and I realized – even if I haven’t learned how to do it yet – that you have to appreciate things and people when they are there: your family, your work, your friends … together it is precious ».

But some are pains are not forgotten, even if we do not talk about it, and now, on the occasion of the anniversary, Kim wanted to leave a public memory, which was also an appeal in support of the suicide prevention. But he wanted to do it without sadness, recalling a moment of joy and lightheartedness between brothers. Young and with eyes full of life.