A Hallmark TV star broke down as he paid emotional tribute to his spouse, who was killed in final weekend’s horror assault on a Filipino avenue pageant in Vancouver.
Noel Johansen held again tears as he spoke about his spouse, Jenifer Darbellay, 50, who was amongst 11 killed when a mentally-ill driver intentionally rammed his SUV into crowds attending the Lapu-Lapu Day celebration on Saturday.
Johansen, a Montreal-born actor who holds Canadian, British and American citizenship, was on crutches due to his damage from the assault as he addressed a vigil for the victims.
“What you see right here is an damage which means nothing to me as a result of what’s inside my coronary heart is damaged. As a result of my spouse handed away behind me on the incident,” he mentioned, standing bravely beside his seven-year-old daughter Darby, who was additionally injured in Saturday’s assault.
“She by no means celebrated herself in her life,” Johansen mentioned about his costume designer spouse, with whom he additionally shares a 15-year-old son Ford.
He added: “She by no means considered herself, she considered herself as small when it comes to the attain. And I can inform you she was bigger than life for any of you who know her.
“So don’t be small in life, be large, attain out and attain out as a human being with every thing you’ve got, and please bear in mind us who went by way of this,” he mentioned.
Johansen, who splits his life between Vancouver and Los Angeles, is finest recognized for his work on Hallmark Channel exhibits and films embrace “Storage Sale Thriller: All That Glitters,” “When Calls the Coronary heart,” “Chesapeake Shores,” “Harvest Love,” “Reunited at Christmas,” and “Roux the Day: A Gourmand Detective Thriller.”
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A GoFundMe arrange by Johansen’s good friend and enterprise companion, Michael Daingerfield Corridor, to boost cash for the grieving household has made $120,000 of its $144,000 goal.
