Caitlyn Jenner couldn’t contain her emotions on Thursday as she shared her grief over her good friend Sophia Hutchins’ death weeks earlier.
During her appearance on Fox News At Night, the 75-year-old Olympic gold medallist was reduced to tears as she admitted that Hutchins’ tragic death in an ATV crash on July 2 had ‘hit [her] hard.’
Jenner went on to compare her heartbreak to the intense sorrow that the parents of the two children slain in a school shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday must be feeling.
‘Just recently my good friend Sophia passed away in a tragic accident,’ a visibly emotional Jenner said. ‘But for the last seven weeks, I’ve been dealing with death, and it’s so difficult.’
‘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,’ Jenner said as her voice croaked and tears welled up in her eyes.
‘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 also.’
Jenner — who opened up to the Daily Mail about her grief just days after Hutchins was killed — was fittingly dressed in mournful black for the television appearance.
Hutchins was killed after she ran her ATV off a road near Jenner’s Malibu home and plummeted into a 350-foot ravine.
Emergency responders pronounced her dead at the scene.
Investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department determined within days of the crash that speed had been a factor in the former Trump campaign surrogate’s death.
Hutchins allegedly hit the bumper of a car in front of her, which set the deadly crash in motion.
While speaking to the Daily Mail, Sgt. Eduardo Saucedo of the LASD stated: ‘It looks like she may have been speeding and rear-ended the other car, the other party, and then that caused her to veer to the right and go off the cliff.’
