Jane Seymour Says She and Christopher Reeve's Wife Would 'Tag Team' Caring for Him After Tragic Accident (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve in 1997.Photo:Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty

Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty

Jane Seymouris opening up about how longtime friendChristopher Reeveinspired her during the last decade of his life.

“We were very close, and remained very close, but especially after he had the injury. And Dana and I would do tag team, sometimes: when she couldn’t be there, she’d ask me if I had come and run interference,” Seymour explained. “Chris never lost his sense of humor, ever. Ever. I mean, he was funny. He was so much fun. And I think of anyone in the world was my greatest inspiration, because he took a challenge that is inconceivable to have to live that way.”

Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour in ‘Somewhere in Time’ in 1980.Snap/Shutterstock

Snap/Shutterstock

Seymour noted,as she has previously, how difficult requiring around-the-clock care must have been for Reeve, who valued solitude. “We’d have long conversations about that,” she said. “He said, ‘Now, whether I like it or not, I wake up in the morning.’ He said, ‘Every morning when I wake up, I’ve just come out of a dream in which I’m sailing alone. I’m flying alone. And then I wake up and I hear machines, and then there’s someone there who has to take care of every part of my body.’ ”

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TheDr. Quinn, Medicine Womanstar recalled Reeve explaining that he’d had to learn that those caring for him “bring the outside world with them.”

“I remember listening to him and thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, how hard must that be?’ ” Seymour said.

Jane Seymour with Christopher Reeve, wife Dana and son Will in 1997.Bei/Shutterstock

Bei/Shutterstock

Reeves’ legacy, which includes theChristopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, Seymour said, “teaches all of us that everyone in life will have challenges, some more than others.”

“The hardest thing to do is to accept,” she continued. “And if you can accept, open up your heart, reach out to help someone else, you’ll have a purpose. And that is the secret to happiness. And if you have a purpose, then you can feel really good about yourself. When you feel good about yourself, you are like a magnet. People want to be part of something good. They do not want to be around people that go, ‘Oh, life’s so terrible. Why me?’ And they’re attracted to people that are going out making a difference. And that was his attraction. That’s what made him a real Superman.”

source: people.com