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Kirstie Alley was cremated pursuing her shocking decease connected Dec. 5, according to Us Weekly, who obtained her decease certificate connected Dec. 29. The outlet besides reported that the Golden Globe winner’s decease certificate said she died astatine her residence successful Clearwater, Fla. She was 71 years old.
Kirstie’s children, True Parker, 30, and Lillie Parker, 28, confirmed connected Dec. 5 that she died pursuing a little and backstage conflict with colon cancer. “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,” their Twitter connection read. “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.”
— Kirstie Alley (@kirstiealley) December 6, 2022
Kirstie shared her children with her ex-husband, The Hardy Boys histrion Parker Stevenson. The brace were joined betwixt 1983 and 1997. Kirstie was archetypal joined to Bob Alley, but did not person kids during their seven-year union.
Parker posted a saccharine tribute to Alley pursuing her decease connected Instagram. Alongside a pic of the brace smiling, helium wrote, “Dear Kirstie, I americium truthful grateful for our years together, and for the 2 incredibly beauteous children and present grandchildren that we have. You volition beryllium missed.”
Kirstie Alley and Parker Stevenson were joined for 14 years (Photo: Bei/Shutterstock)Alley was besides fondly remembered by her friends, colleagues, and chap celebrities pursuing her death, including Cheers co-star Ted Danson. “I was connected a level contiguous and did thing I seldom do. I watched an aged occurrence of Cheers. It was the occurrence wherever Tom Berenger proposes to Kirstie, who keeps saying no, adjacent though she desperately wants to accidental yes. Kirstie was genuinely superb successful it,” he told PEOPLE successful a connection connected Dec. 6.
“Her quality to play a pistillate connected the verge of a tense breakdown was some moving and hysterically funny. She made maine laughter 30 years agone erstwhile she changeable that scene, and she made maine laughter contiguous conscionable arsenic hard,” helium continued. “As I got disconnected the plane, I heard that Kirstie had died. I americium truthful bittersweet and truthful grateful for each the times she made maine laugh. I nonstop my emotion to her children. As they good know, their parent had a bosom of gold. I volition miss her.”
Kirstie Alley had a decades-long acting vocation opening successful 1978 (Photo: Tammie Arroyo / AFF-USA.com / MEGA)Ted, 75, and Kirstie acted connected Cheers for six years unneurotic betwixt 1987 and 1993. She earned some an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe successful 1991 for her relation of Rebecca Howe. The gig was considered her breakout role.
Kirstie’s different co-star, Rhea Perlman, 74, besides remembered her arsenic a “unique and fantastic idiosyncratic and friend” and a idiosyncratic with “boundless” joy.
Other celebrities who mourned Kirstie’s death included Tim Allen, 69, who starred other her successful 1997’s For Richer oregon Poorer, John Travolta, 68, who co-starred with her successful 1989’s Look Who’s Talking and 1993’s Look Who’s Talking Now, and Jamie Lee Curtis, 64, to sanction a few.
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