“When he was alive I’d always leave the light on if he’d come home. I just want Logan to know that he’s always welcome to come back home,” she said. “Every night I put a candle by the window.
To help keep his spirit alive, Marlyse said she keeps her son’s ashes in a stone urn. She went on to say that she hopes by speaking out about her son’s battle, it can help in creating “a legacy out of this tragedy” and “create awareness or help one or five or 100 people to somehow heal and get help.” A club you don’t want to be a member of.” “My heart breaks for her because I know the initial devastation of knowing your beautiful boy is gone. Though the cause of her son’s death was never revealed until now, Marlyse said her heart broke after hearing singer Melissa Etheridge on Wednesday announce the death of her 21-year-old son, Beckett, who died from an opioid overdose. But I have to say I feel like he was restless and he needed me to tell him it’s OK to let go and that the pain is over and he doesn’t have to hurt anymore.” “Seeing him like that was as gut-wrenching as hearing that he died. And I want my new life to start.’ I just know the last thing we said to each other was, ‘I love you,'” she said.įour days later, Marlyse said, she had to identify his body. Marlyse said the last time she saw her son was on March 30 and he expressed his hope to “get better.” He said to me, ‘Mom, I’m gonna get clean. We didn’t want people to know because of the judgment, because of the embarrassment, because of the criticism. She added that they kept his addition struggles a secret as a means of preventing any “judgment” from the public: “Logan was always hoping to get back into acting, music or whatever future he wanted. “I did everything but handcuff him to me to try to keep him safe.” “I did everything humanly possible - everything a mother could do,” Marlyse said. and, just last summer, sent him to a British Columbia facility where he stayed for a month. To help her son as he battled his addiction, she remortgaged their home to send him to an expensive treatment center in the U.S. She then revealed that Williams’ drug use escalated to other drugs, which led her to seek help.
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If you, or someone you know, needs help with a substance use disorder, call SAMHSA’s National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357) or TTY: 1-80.Marlyse recalled discovering Williams using marijuana when he was 13, the same time the actor was juggling school and acting on the Hallmark series When Calls the Heart, the ABC sci-fi series The Whispers and the longtime CW series Supernatural. John Wesley Shipp, who played Williams’ dad in the flashbacks, likewise was “heartsick” to hear the tragic news, saying, “ was 100 percent committed to playing young Barry Allen, and we missed him once we moved past that part of the story.” Please keep Logan and his family in your thoughts and prayers during what has been a strange and trying time for us all. “I just know the last thing we said to each other was, ‘I love you.'”įlash star Grant Gustin said that Williams’ passing was “ devastating,” adding: “My thoughts and prayers will be with him and his family during what is I’m sure an unimaginably difficult time for them. And I want my new life to start,'” she remembers. “He said to me, ‘Mom, I’m gonna get clean, I’m going to get better. Marlyse Williams last saw her son on March 30, when they shared dinner three days before his death. In recent years, she remortgaged their home to send him to treatments centers in the United States and then British Columbia. Williams’ mother said that when auditioning became “way too stressful,” that was when Logan began experimenting with drugs, beginning with marijuana she is uncertain when it progressed to fentanyl. Ratings: Jeopardy! Tops Chicago Fire Finale in Viewers, Flash Ends Steady The Flash Boss Details 'Final, Epic' Arrowverse Crossover Event That Wound Up a Casualty of Cancellation Soon after that, he appeared in an episode of Supernatural - all the while juggling a recurring run on Hallmark’s When Calls the Heart, where he played Miles Montgomery. He last appeared in the Season 2 premiere, when he was age 12. Logan Williams made a total of seven appearances on The Flash, beginning with the CW series’ pilot.
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