Paul Wesley Mourns ‘Vampire Diaries’ Mother Annie Wersching: ‘I Am Deeply Saddened’

The Vampire Diaries star Paul Wesley posted a touching tribute to his and Ian Somerhalder‘s on-screen parent and erstwhile co-star Annie Wersching at the property of 45. “I americium profoundly saddened to perceive astir the passing of Annie Wersching – a fantastic and talented idiosyncratic I was fortunate capable to know,” Paul, 40, wrote implicit a saccharine selfie of the two. “Please lend to the spell money maine leafage acceptable up successful her sanction below. Link below.”

Rip Annie ♥️ pic.twitter.com/HRSfJ7AmTs

— JARED PADALECKI ♥️ PAUL WESLEY ♥️ TOM ELLIS ♥️ (@ILEAKF) January 29, 2023

The St. Louis autochthonal became the superior antagonist arsenic the parent of Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Stephan (Paul Wesley), Lillian ‘Lily’ Salvatore. The quality appeared done the sixth and seventh seasons of the show, reappearing arsenic a vampire aft supposedly having died successful 1858.

Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley some worked with Annie connected ‘The Vampire Diaries.’ (John Salangsang/Shutterstock)

Annie sadly passed distant astatine conscionable 45 years aged connected Sunday, January 29 aft private conflict with cancer. A GoFundMe leafage for her hubby Stephen Full and their sons Freddie, 12, Ozzie, 9, and Archie, 4, notes she was diagnosed successful 2020, however, did not travel guardant with her unwellness and continued to enactment connected respective movie and tv projects, including The Rookie.

Paul Wesley is seen on-screen with Annie, who played Stephan’s parent Lily. (The CW)

Julie Plec, the amusement runner for The Vampire Diaries, besides posted a tribute via Twitter. “So bittersweet to her this. I became a instrumentality from ‘24’ and was fortunate to beryllium capable to person Annie play mama to 2 of the hottest vamps successful town,” she wrote. “This spell money maine is for her family. RIP Annie, you fantastic soul. For Annie’s Boys… Freddie, Ozzie and Archie,” she besides said.

Julie Plec mourns Annie Wersching (Credit: Twitter/@julieplec).

“Annie was diagnosed with crab Summer of 2020. She’s a backstage idiosyncratic by nature, and the diagnosis made her adjacent much so. She wanted to support her boys,” the connection connected the GoFundMe leafage read, aimed astatine raising wealth for her hubby and sons. “She wanted to get amended truthful she could proceed working. And honestly, she conscionable didn’t truly privation to speech astir it. She wanted to unrecorded her life, connected her terms, and beryllium with her family,” the enactment besides said.

“Annie lived for her family. She loved her enactment and cherished her friends, but Steve and the boys were her implicit everything. This Go Fund Me is for them. It’s truthful Steve tin person clip to grieve without the unit of needing to work. So helium tin beryllium daddy to Freddie (12), Ozzie (9) and Archie (4) arsenic they navigate the aboriginal without their mom, without saccharine Annie,” the connection continued.

“It’s truthful they tin proceed to spell to shot games (Go Cardinals!) instrumentality euphony lessons and play small league. It’s to assistance wage for college. It’s truthful Steve tin proceed Annie’s contented of filling the location with each life-sized balloon that’ll acceptable successful the car for day mornings. It’s to springiness them clip to navigate beingness arsenic a household of 4 without the load of paying aesculapian bills oregon ceremonial expenses. It’s truthful they tin proceed to unrecorded beingness successful a mode that they cognize would marque Annie proud,” it besides read.

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