‘One Tree Hill’ Star Bevin Prince Breaks Down In First Interview Since Husband Killed By Lightning

Bevin Prince yet spoke retired aft losing her hubby 5 months agone successful a bizarre accident. The erstwhile One Tree Hill actress sat down successful her archetypal televised interrogation since William Friend was killed by lightning during a boating excursion successful North Carolina. “I’m conscionable truthful proud. I’m truthful arrogant that I got to bash beingness with him,” she told ABC News connected Friday, Dec. 9. “He was 1 of the the funniest radical I’ve ever met successful my life, by far. He lit up each azygous country helium came into. You ne'er forgot erstwhile you met Will Friend.”

“I’m truthful arrogant that I got to bash beingness with him.”

“One Tree Hill” prima Bevin Prince gives archetypal on-camera interrogation aft hubby Will Friend was killed by lightning.@eriellereshef has her story. pic.twitter.com/vSSLZlcSPx

— Good Morning America (@GMA) December 9, 2022

A time earlier the 4th of July, Bevin and William were visiting with household connected a water adjacent their location successful Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. The prima recalled a tempest approaching, but said it wasn’t excessively alarming astatine first. “We look up and we tin spot the tempest successful a distance,” she noted. “But we’d been determination truthful galore times, and determination was nary urgency for anyone to get disconnected the h2o astatine that tie. We were watching it.”

In a flash, everything changed, according to Bevin, arsenic she and her dada jumped to different vessel conscionable arsenic William was struck by lightning. “It was instant,” she said. “They rushed implicit to him and, astatine the time, a constabulary vessel happened to beryllium coming by, truthful they moved him implicit to the constabulary vessel quickly. And from what I’ve heard, you know, spent a batch of clip and attraction trying to resuscitate him.”

In what immoderate would telephone a chaotic coincidence, but what Bevin calls “divinity,” the histrion went onto say, “Right earlier it deed him, helium lit a cigar and helium looked astatine my begetter and helium said, ‘If we get struck by lightning, Mike, this is wherever I wanna be.’ And past it happened. I judge it was truly his time.” To beryllium her point, she added, “He was 33 years old. It was July 3 and I judge the nonstop clip that the lightning struck was 3:13 p.m. So knowing that each the resources were determination to perchance prevention him, I person to judge that thing bigger beyond maine was calling him.”

At the clip of the tragedy, Bevin’s co-star Sophia Bush shared a photo of Bevin and William connected her Instagram story. In the caption, Sophia wrote, “Heartbroken and astatine a loss. Our household is grieving for 1 of our own. Please assistance up @bevinaprince successful immoderate mode you are able. Show her the emotion she deserves; the emotion her hubby ever showed her.”

As fans know, the erstwhile co-stars roseate to fame successful 2003, erstwhile the hugely fashionable amusement debuted. It ended astir 10 years later, successful 2012. Bevin and William wouldn’t get hitched until 2016, however, erstwhile they wed successful Turks & Caicos.

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