Suzanne Somers’ Son Bruce Mourns Her Death: ‘Heaven Is Lucky’

Suzanne Somers’ son, Bruce Somers Jr., is paying tribute to his late mom.

“She soared increased than most can dream. She protected those that didn’t have a voice. She requested the questions most didn’t know to ask. She shared her challenges and introduced gentle to options,” Bruce, 57, started a prolonged Instagram publish on Monday, October 16. “To so many she was a courageous warrior who articulated their fears. She wasn’t fearless, however she confronted them so we might be taught. She was a good friend, a spouse, a sister, a daughter, an entertainer, an icon, and a legend. However to me, she was simply Mother. I had the privilege as the one one who might name her that.”

Bruce — whom Somers shared together with her first husband, Bruce Somers Sr. — mentioned it was him and his mother “in opposition to the world” earlier than she “took the world by storm” together with her starring roles on reveals resembling Three’s Firm and Step by Step.

“It’s all the time too quickly, irrespective of how ready we could also be,” he wrote. “However she’s going to stay by me as she taught me to be form, to be current, to like and be beloved, to care, to precise, and to all the time communicate from the center … as a result of THAT is the voice of God.”

Though Suzanne left him with “all of the instruments” that he wants in life, Bruce Jr. mentioned he’ll “nonetheless want your guiding spirit round me.” He continued: “I really feel you and know you might be there. However I’ll miss your candy hand and caring eyes that will look deep into my soul for verification that every part was okay. Thanks for being the very best mom any son might ever dream of. I miss you already. Name me grasping, however 57 years wasn’t sufficient. And but, I obtained extra love than I might ever think about. I like you so dearly.”

He concluded his heartfelt message by acknowledging that the actress handed away in the future shy of her 77th birthday. “Please gorge on all of the birthday cake you need whilst you make all the opposite angels sing, dance, snort and cry,” he said. “Right now, Heaven is fortunate. 🥰🥲😇❤️🙏🍀.”

Us Weekly confirmed on Sunday, October 15, that Somers died following a two-decades lengthy battle with breast most cancers. “Suzanne was surrounded by her loving husband, Alan, her son Bruce, and her fast household,” Suzanne’s longtime publicist, R. Couri Hay, mentioned in a press release to Us.

Suzanne can also be survived by her husband, Alan Hamel, and her three stepchildren, whom Hamel, 87, shares together with his ex-wife, Marilyn Shapiro.

Alan, for his half, penned an emotional letter to his partner in the future earlier than her dying. “Love I exploit it each day, generally a number of occasions a day. I exploit it on the finish of emails to my loving household. I even use it in emails to shut buddies. I exploit it after I’m leaving the home,” he declared within the letter, shared with Us by Hay. “There’s love, then love you and I like you!! Therein lies a number of the alternative ways we use love. Generally I really feel obliged to make use of love, responding to somebody who signed love of their electronic mail, after I’m uncomfortable utilizing love however I exploit it anyway.”

Occurring to explain totally different meanings of the phrase love, Alan wrapped his letter by stating there are “no phrases” to explain the love he has for Suzanne. “Even the inexperienced shaded students of the Oxford College Press have spent 50 years and nonetheless have didn’t provide you with that one phrase,” he wrote. “So I’ll name it ‘us,’ uniquely, magically, indescribably great ‘us.’”