Regina King Honors Late Son Ian Alexander Jr., 1 Year After His Death: ‘My Guiding Light’

Regina King paid a saccharine tribute to her precocious lad Ian Alexander Jr. on what would person been his 27th birthday. The Oscar winner, 52, took to her Instagram connected Thursday to stock a touching video of a memorial for Ian, who died by suicide past year. “January 19th is Ian’s Worthday,” Regina wrote alongside a video of a insubstantial lantern floating successful the sky. “As we inactive process his carnal absence, we observe his presence. We are each successful antithetic places connected the planet…so is Ian. His tone is the thread that connects us.”

The Watchmen prima continued her heartwarming connection by admitting she inactive “sees” Ian everyplace successful her life. “My implicit favourite happening astir myself is being ….Regina the parent of Ian the GodKing. Continue to radiance bright, my guiding light. 🧡🧡🧡,” she concluded.

A gaggle of her celebrated friends were speedy to nonstop their emotion and enactment successful the comments conception arsenic Tracee Ellis Ross added bosom emojis, portion Octavia Spencer shared praying hands emojis. Ava DuVernay adjacent quoted a poem. And Niecy Nash posted, “My friend. I deliberation of you often. I ever commune for your spot & bid successful the midst of nonaccomplishment and grief. I emotion you.”

Regina King paid tribute to her precocious lad Ian Alexander Jr. successful January 2023. (Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

At the clip of Ian’s untimely passing successful January 2022, Regina had released a statement, asking for privacy. She added, “Our household is devastated astatine the deepest level by the nonaccomplishment of Ian. He is specified a agleam airy who cared truthful profoundly astir the happiness of others.”

Regina shared Ian with grounds shaper Ian Alexander. The brace joined a twelvemonth aft Ian Jr.’s commencement successful 1997 and divorced a decennary later. Regina aboriginal admitted that raising her lone kid arsenic a single parent wasn’t ever easy, but good worthy it. “You don’t cognize what unconditional emotion is. You whitethorn accidental you do, but if you don’t person a child, you don’t cognize what that is,” she told People. “When you acquisition it, it’s the astir fulfilling [thing] ever.”

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