Caitlyn Jenner shared an emotional message after her supervisor Sophia Hutchins’ surprising loss of life.
“Just lately, my good good friend Sophia handed away in a tragic accident,” Jenner, 75, stated through the Thursday, August 28, broadcast of Fox Information at Night time, whereas reporting on the latest church capturing in Minnesota. “For the final seven weeks, I’ve been coping with loss of life, and it’s so troublesome. So, when this [tragedy] occurred, it actually hit me onerous.”
She continued, “Right here I’m coping with my grief, and I simply can’t even think about dad and mom who dropped their child off at college and, like that father simply stated, ‘I’ll by no means get an opportunity to speak to him once more.’ That’s simply so horrible. I’ve been coping with grief, and these individuals have a protracted highway forward of them, they usually’re going to be coping with grief.”
Hutchins died following an ATV accident that occurred close to Jenner’s Malibu residence and was pronounced lifeless on the scene, TMZ reported on July 3. She was 29.
The outlet famous that Hutchins’ automobile plunged 350 toes right into a ravine after colliding with the bumper of one other automobile. The 2 individuals within the automobile she struck weren’t injured.
Sophie Hutchins and Caitlyn Jenner Leon Bennett/Getty Pictures
Lower than three days after Hutchins’ loss of life went public, Sergeant Eduardo Saucedo, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division Malibu/Misplaced Hills division, offered some extra particulars on the crash.
“It appears to be like like she might have been rushing and rear-ended the opposite automobile, the opposite celebration, after which that brought about her to veer to the proper and go off the cliff,” Saucedo shared by way of The Every day Mail on July 6. “It doesn’t seem to be she was following them. I feel she simply got here up on them after which hit the automobile.”
Saucedo famous that Hutchins might have been attempting to “maneuver” across the different automobile earlier than crashing.
“She was going too quick and simply ended up clipping the rear finish of that Mazda, inflicting her to veer off and go off the cliff there,” he stated.
The officer shared that Jenner did go to the accident web site because the investigation was underway and that investigators would look forward to the coroner’s division to organize a toxicology report earlier than figuring out whether or not or not Hutchins was impaired behind the wheel.
That very same day Saucedo revealed extra particulars, Jenner was additionally noticed for the primary time, telling the Every day Mail that she was experiencing “robust occasions.”
In footage obtained by the outlet on Sunday, Jenner hid her face by way of a darkish pair of glasses and a blue visor whereas telling reporters that she did “not wish to speak” in regards to the accident with Hutchins.
Hutchins, who was additionally a trans lady, appeared on a number of episodes of the E! docuseries I Am Cait in 2015 earlier than finally changing into Jenner’s enterprise supervisor.
The twosome ceaselessly sparked relationship rumors after attending occasions collectively — however they all the time denied having any romantic connection.
“We’re not going to get into that,” Jenner informed Selection in 2018 when requested to clarify her relationship with Hutchins. “However we’re very shut. We do lots of issues collectively. We’re type of inseparable. We’re the perfect of mates.”
