{"id":268757,"date":"2019-03-05T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1020910"},"modified":"2019-03-05T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:22:00","slug":"luke-perrys-daughter-sophie-makes-first-statement-since-fathers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/luke-perrys-daughter-sophie-makes-first-statement-since-fathers-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Perry&#8217;s Daughter Sophie Makes First Statement Since Father&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201924\/rs_600x600-190304095619-600-luke-perry-riverdale3.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.440021810251\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"20.450381679389\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/luke_perry\">Luke Perry<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s daughter is speaking out about her father&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sophie Perry<\/strong>&nbsp;is expressing her gratitude for the outpouring of support that friends, family and strangers have been offering in the wake of the&nbsp;<em>Beverly Hills, 90210&nbsp;<\/em>star&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1019637\/luke-perry-dies-at-52-after-suffering-stroke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">death<\/a>. &#8220;In the past 24 hours I have received an overwhelming amount of love and support,&#8221; she writes on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Buo6FIuAhfB\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>. &#8220;I cannot individually respond to the hundreds of beautiful and heartfelt messages, but I see them, and appreciate you all for sending positivity to my family and I.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Understandably, the young adult is still reeling over the death of the 52-year-old and asks for patience while she copes with the loss. She shares, &#8220;I&#8217;m not really sure what to say or do in this situation, it&#8217;s something you aren&#8217;t ever given a lesson on how to handle, especially when it&#8217;s all happening in the public eye. So bare with me and know that I am grateful for all the love (sic).&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.146892655367\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8.6440677966102\">\n<p>Days before his death, Sophie was in Malawi, where she appears to be volunteering in various communities. However, her trip was cut short when she learned of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1019458\/riverdale-s-luke-perry-hospitalized-after-stroke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">massive stroke<\/a> her father suffered. &#8220;A lot has happened in this past week for me. Everything is happening so fast. I made it back from Malawi just in time to be here with my family,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33.7625\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12.025\">\n<p>Sophie is not the only one mourning the loss of the&nbsp;<em>Riverdale<\/em> star. Countless celebrities and friends of Perry are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1020475\/molly-ringwald-and-more-stars-react-to-luke-perry-s-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sharing their condolences<\/a> and memories of the star in honor of the impact he made.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the stars who has been deeply impacted by the loss of Luke is his former onscreen love interest&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/shannen_doherty\">Shannen Doherty<\/a><\/strong>. &#8220;Yesterday morning I got a phone call that devastated me,&#8221; Shannen&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BuokFQVgoUz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared&nbsp;<\/a>on social media. &#8220;I&#8217;m struggling with this loss and am having a hard time with my thoughts. But, my heart goes out to his family and friends who were blessed by his light in their (and mine) lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts go out to the Perry family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1020910\/luke-perry-s-daughter-expresses-sorrow-in-first-statement-since-father-s-death?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Perry&#8216;s daughter is speaking out about her father&#8217;s death. Sophie Perry&nbsp;is expressing her gratitude for the outpouring of support that friends, family and strangers have been offering in the wake of the&nbsp;Beverly Hills, 90210&nbsp;star&#8217;s death. &#8220;In the past 24 hours I have received an overwhelming amount of love and support,&#8221; she writes on her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-268757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 16:58:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}