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(Photo by Taylor Hill/WireImage)Kate Beckinsale marked the one-year anniversary of her stepfather’s death with an honest and emotional post detailing what it was like to watch him and her father die.
The actress shared a photo of her late stepfather, Roy Batterseathrough her Instagram account on Friday, January 10. In the picture, Roy is seen wearing a new shirt that reads: “World’s Best Pastor. I mean father” and smiles while holding a bouquet of flowers.
“Finding my father’s dead body alone in the middle of the night at the age of five shaped my entire life. Seeing my beloved stepfather die one year ago today will haunt me forever,” Beckinsale, 51, wrote in a lengthy tribute. “I find it terribly negligent that I managed to be present at both deaths and not be able to prevent either one, the second time I tried with everything I had. It wasn’t enough.”
The Black canary the actress reflected on her grief and sense of loss associated with Battersy’s death, who died in Los Angeles in January 2024 after a “short illness”.
Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Max Mara Kate Beckinsale is mourning the death of her stepfather, British director Roy Battersby. “I’m at a loss for words yet. Thank you @katebeckinsale_slovakia2 for doing this beautiful thing,” Beckinsale, 50, captioned an Instagram video of Battersby created by a fan account on Monday, Jan. 15. “I fought for you with everything (…)
“In the process of losing my beloved Roy, I lost family, friendships, at some points my own health and all the money I had because of how horrible the American health care system is for the uninsured.” I would do it again. No question. I can’t help but feel like I failed miserably,” she wrote
Beckinsale went on to explain that she relied on what she could to “comfort herself”, saying that Battersy was ready for his life to end and was “at peace” with it.
“However, it feels like a lie I’m telling myself to try and feel better. Maybe I’m just unfortunately not enlightened enough to sell it to myself for my sense of loss, guilt and failure,” she admitted.
The one-year anniversary of Battersy’s death was a tough pill to swallow, according to Beckinsale.
MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images UPDATE: 1/19/24 at 12:45 PM ET One day after Beckinsale shared her frustrations with BAFTA’s veneration of her late stepfather, the awards show decided to pay tribute to him at a later ceremony. “We were very sorry that Roy Battersby passed away recently – he was well known (…)
“It’s a hard day to talk about our young and precious tragedy, but given that I couldn’t save him, I’ll be damned if I don’t honor him in some small way,” she continued. “He taught me how to be brave. He taught me that it doesn’t matter if people don’t like you as long as you’re doing the right thing, he lost everything fighting for justice for the unions, for the Palestinians in the 1970s when he lived with them in refugee camps in Lebanon for several years making his documentary from 1977 “The Palestinian”, fighting for miners to lose everything in strikes.
She concluded: “I am so lucky to have been raised by someone who uncompromisingly knew what was right and lived by it. And he loved me. Thank you for being my father. I miss you so much.”
