Caitlyn Jenner couldn’t contain her emotions on Thursday as she compared her grief over her good friend Sophia Hutchins’ death weeks earlier to what the parents of victims of a school shooting in Minnesota this week were feeling.
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.’
‘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.’
She shared the personal confession as a preface to speaking about the shooting on Wednesday at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which claimed the lives of two children.
‘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.
