Sophia Hutchins death: Caitlyn Jenner makes first comments on tragic accident
Caitlyn Jenner says she’s still coming to terms with the death of her longtime manager and close friend Sophia Hutchins.
Hutchins, 29, died on July 2 in a quad bike accident near Jenner’s home in Malibu, falling 106 metres into a ravine after hitting the bumper of a moving car.
Two months on, Jenner has spoken publicly for the first time about the tragedy, saying the loss of her good friend has “really hit [her] hard”.
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”For the last seven weeks, I’ve been dealing with death, and it’s so difficult,” she said on Fox News at Night on Thursday, with tears in her eyes.
“When this [tragedy] happened, it really hit me hard.”
Jenner made the comments while discussing the recent church shooting in Minnesota, USA in which two children were killed.
“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’,” she continued, referencing a comment from the father of victim Fletcher Merkel, eight.
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“That is just so horrible. 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.”
Hutchins was introduced to Jenner by their hairstylist in 2015 and she moved in with the reality star in 2017.
She appeared in multiple episodes of the reality series I Am Cait as Jenner’s manager, and the two had remained close friends and colleagues ever since.
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When the pair began living together, the internet began to speculate they may be romantically involved.
However Hutchins denied the rumours in a 2020 interview on Heather McDonald’s Juicy Scoop podcast.
”It’s very parental, very protective. We’re family. It’s an interesting family situation,” she said.
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“All of my family is in Seattle. I didn’t have family here. I was thinking I would move to New York and Caitlyn was like, ‘Work here, live here.'”
Hutchins’ official cause of death was confirmed two weeks after she died, with the death ruled an accident.
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