Alicia Witt Opens Up About Her Parents’ Passing: ‘I Hadn’t Been Allowed Inside My Parents’ Home’

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Alicia Witt is ready to speak publicly about the sudden passing of her parents, Robert Witt and Diane Witt. Robert, 87, and Diane, 75, were found unresponsive in their home in the days leading up to Christmas.

A wellness check was requested after growing concerns about their wellbeing. A report by Telegram & Gazette suggests the home’s poor condition could have contributed to the unexciting passing of Witt’s parents. “This is very delicate for me to write because I’m wanting to honour their privacy, which they held so tightly.

There’s an awful irony in the fact that because of the very lengths they went to in order to protect their privacy in life — that privacy has been stripped away in death,” Witt wrote Tuesday on Instagram. “I never imagined I would have to talk about this publicly — much less, amidst overwhelming floods of grief.” READ MORE: Michael Madsen’s Son Hudson Dead At 26 From Apparent Suicide Witt elaborated on how private her parents were about their house. “I hadn’t been allowed inside my parents’ home for well over a decade; every time I offered to have something repaired for them, they refused to allow workers into their house,” she said. “I begged, cried, tried to reason with them, tried to convince them to let me help them move — but every time, they became furious with me, telling me I had no right to tell them how to live their lives and that they had it all under control.” “It was not for a lack of trying on my part or the part of other people who loved them.

My parents were not penniless. They were fiercely stubborn, beautifully original souls, and with that, they made choices — choices that I couldn’t talk them out of.