After the SAG-AFTRA president announced the “heartbreaking” news on Instagram Friday she opened up about the “profound pain” she continues to feel in the days since her father’s death
Fran Drescher is mourning the loss of her father.
The Nanny alum, 66, initially shared the news of her 94-year-old father’s death on Instagram Friday as she wrote, “It still feels untenable how permanent the loss of this great man is.”
Drescher said her father Morty “passed away gently in his sleep” on March 20 in the company of her and her mother, Sylvia, his wife of “71 wonderful years.” He also leaves behind Drescher’s sister, Nadine.
In a follow-up post shared Tuesday, the actress continued to reflect on the profound loss as she shared a sweet throwback photo of her parents. “My father is gone. My tears come often. My mom is so broken its heartbreaking when the love was so great to have to say goodbye at age 90 to the love of her life since age 16.”
Calling life a “series” of “moments,” Drescher said this one is “a hard one but my life has taught me we do climb out of the pit of despair and continue living, loving & laughing again but baring [sic] the new and recent scars of profound pain. 🙏💔🥲.”
In her first post announcing her father’s death, Drescher referenced her father’s shared love of acting as she highlighted his “several appearances on The Nanny and The Rosie O’Donnell Show.”
“His values were always in the right place. He honored and respected everyone equally,” Drescher wrote. “He understood the important things in this life, love of family, simple pleasures and living in gratitude. He passed these values onto his children and lived an exemplary life.”
Her father was “always the life of the party” and “a good friend to many people both at work and within his community,” the actress said.
“He was an amazing father who taught my sister and I to swim, ride a bicycle and drive a car. He was the best husband to my mom and remained madly in love with her until his last breath,” she continued.
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“He was so very proud of both his daughters’ accomplishments. My sister who raised two daughters of her own while achieving her doctrine in nursing. And a systems analyst, I inherited his analytical mind which I referenced throughout my leadership as sag-aftra president, especially during the strike.”
She concluded the post, “I am so happy he got to see me not only achieve success as an actor but even more important as a labor leader because doing volunteer work on behalf of the greater good was the ethics by which he raised me. If there is a heaven, he’s there now because he lived purely, honestly and lovingly.”
