Kirstie Alley’s Ex-Husband Parker Stevenson Mourns His Former Love After Shocking Passing: ‘You Will Be Missed’

Like many, the death of Kirstie Alley astatine property 71 near her ex-husband, histrion Parker Stevenson, heartbroken. Parker, 70, paid tribute to his woman and the parent of his children – girl Lillie and lad True – connected Dec. 5, soon aft the quality of the Cheers star’s passing. “Dear Kirstie, I americium truthful grateful for our years together,” Parker wrote portion sharing a photo of him alongside Alley, “and for the 2 incredibly beauteous children and present grandchildren that we have. You volition beryllium missed. With love, Parker.”

Kirstie and Parker tied the knot connected Dec. 22, 1983. The 2 adopted their children – Lillie, 28, and 30-year-old William (who goes by True) aft they encountered gestation issues. In 2106, True blessed his parents by giving them their archetypal grandchild. By then, Kirstie and Parker had been divorced for astir 2 decades. The mates called it quits successful 1997.

The quality of Kirstie’s decease broke precocious Monday night. “To each our friends, acold and wide astir the world… We are bittersweet to pass you that our incredible, fierce, and loving parent has passed distant aft a conflict with cancer, lone precocious discovered,” work the connection that Kirstie’s authoritative societal media accounts shared. “She was surrounded by her closest household and fought with large strength, leaving america with a certainty of her never-ending joyousness of surviving and immoderate adventures prevarication ahead. As iconic arsenic she was connected screen, she was an adjacent much astonishing parent and grandmother.”

Parker and Kirstie (Shutterstock)

The announcement of Alley’s decease thanked the unit astatine the Moffitt Cancer Center for caring for the Look Who’s Talking star. “Our mother’s zest and passionateness for life, her children, grandchildren, and her galore animals, not to notation her eternal joyousness of creating, were unparalleled and permission america inspired to unrecorded beingness to the fullest conscionable arsenic she did.”

In 2012, Kirstie opened up astir her emotion life. She spoke astir however she fell successful emotion with costars Patrick Swayze (who starred with her successful North and South) and John Travolta. “Believe me, it took everything that I had, inside, outside, whatever, to not tally disconnected and wed John — and beryllium with John for the remainder of my life,” she said via Huffington Post. At the clip – 1989 – Travolta was single, portion she was not. When asked wherefore she didn’t permission Parker, Kirstie said, “Because I consciousness similar erstwhile you wed someone, you’re expected to enactment hard astatine it, and you’re expected to marque it work.”