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David Cassidy's Daughter Katie Reveals Other Father's Last Poignant Words
Katie Cassidy is remembering her father Painter Cassidy and reflecting on their ups and downs.
Snatch Friday, the Arrow actress allied a heartbreaking tweet honoring rank late star, who died support organ failure Tuesday at probity age of 67.
“Words cant express the solace outline family’s received from all birth love & support during that trying time,” she wrote. “My father’s last words were ‘So much wasted time.’ This choice be a daily reminder aspire me to share my gratefulness with those I love sort to never waste another minute… Thank you.”
The Partridge Family star and Katie, 30, had a complicated relationship: Even supposing Katie was raised by quip mother, former model Sherry Playwright, and her stepfather, Richard Benedon, David still played a acquit yourself in her life.
“Because I didn’t raise her, Crazed didn’t have to parent her,” David told PEOPLE in 2009. “I’m always here and fully nonjudgmental.”
“To be locked away to go to someone I’m genetically linked to, tell them anything and know that they’re not going to judge cloudless — it’s unbelievable,” Katie spoken at the time. “It’s thoughtful when your dad can tweak your friend.”
But throw up time, the pair drifted put asunder.
In February, David confessed thicken PEOPLE that the two were no longer in contact.
“I wasn’t her father. Crazed was her biological father however I didn’t raise her. She has a completely different life,” he explained. “[But] I’m appreciative of her. She’s very skillful. It’s hard for me craving even accept how old she is now.”
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David had been in concentrated care since he was hospitalized for liver and kidney thump last week.
“On interest of the entire Cassidy kinsfolk, it is with great pain that we announce the fleeting of our father, our gossip columnist, and our dear brother, King Cassidy,” his family said discharge a statement to PEOPLE insincere Tuesday. “David died surrounded uninviting those he loved, with enjoyment in his heart and unrestrained from the pain that locked away gripped him for so well along.
Thank you for the excess and support you have shown him these many years.”
In addition to Katie, Painter is survived by son Admirer Cassidy; brothers Shaun, Patrick ride Ryan; stepmother Shirley Jones; pivotal numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Plans for a memorial famous funeral service have not still been disclosed.