Kate Beckinsale Reflects on Seeing 'Beloved' Stepfather Die 1 Year After His Death: 'I Miss You So Much'

Mar. 15, 2025

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“Finding my father‘s [Richard Beckinsale] body alone in the middle of the night at the age of five shaped my entire life. Seeing my beloved stepfather die a year ago today will haunt me forever,” she wrote onInstagram.

While she said she “would do it again,” she expressed that she continues feeling like she “dreadfully failed” and is trying to console herself “with all the preparation that he did in the last years of his life.”

“He taught me how to be brave. He taught me that it doesn’t matter if people don’t like you as long as you’re doing the right thing, he lost everything fighting for justice for the trade unions, for the Palestinians, living with them in refugee camps in Lebanon for several years making his 1977 documentaryThe Palestinian, fighting for the miners losing everything in the strikes,” she wrote.

Kate Beckinsale attends Variety’s 2024 Power Of Women: Los Angeles Event Presented By Lifetime at Mother Wolf on October 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.JC Olivera/Getty

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“Thank you for being my father. I miss you so much,” she wrote.

source: people.com