“Heal quickly Chef and thank you for bringing awareness to all of us."
Caitlyn Jenner is speaking out following the tragic death of her good friend Sophia Hutchins.
“Recently my good friend Sophia passed away in a tragic accident,” Jenner said while talking with Fox News, according to E! News. “But for the last seven weeks, I've been dealing with death, and it's so difficult.”
While discussing her grief, Jenner also shared her thoughts on the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on August 27. The shooting left more than a dozen people injured and claimed the lives of two young students, Fletcher Merkel, 8, and Harper Moyski, 10.
“So when this happened, it really hit me hard,” Jenner told Fox News. “Because here I am dealing with my grief, and I just can't even imagine parents who dropped their kid off at school and, like that father just said, ‘I'll never get a chance to talk to him again.’ That is… just so horrible.”
“And I've been dealing with grief, and these people have a long road ahead of them, and they're going to be dealing with grief,” Jenner noted.
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The last time Jenner mentioned Hutchins publicly was while she was out grabbing a coffee. A Daily Mail reporter asked the former Olympian about Hutchins’ death, who was also Jenner’s manager.
Hutchins died on Wednesday, July 2 after the ATV she was driving collided with another vehicle.
The following day, Thursday, July 3, Daily Mail caught up with Jenner while running errands, who said she was going through “tough times.”
Jenner, 69, later added telling photographers, “I don’t want to talk.”
Jenner and Hutchins, 29, first became friends after also coming out as transgender in 2015.
“Caitlyn is a parent to me. I have said that a million times. It is a parental, familial relationship,” Sophia once told The New York Times of their relationship.
