The widows of hockey participant brothers Matthew and Johnny Gaudreau are talking out about their grief practically one yr after their husbands had been killed by an alleged drunk driver in New Jersey.
“He kissed all of us goodbye — simply within the driveway at his dad and mom’ home. And that was the final time I noticed him,” Johnny Gaudreau’s spouse, Meredith Gaudreau, advised ABC Information.
Johnny Gaudreau, 31, a Columbus Blue Jackets star, and Matthew Gaudreau, 29, a former professional hockey participant, died on Aug. 29, 2024. The brothers, who had been dwelling in New Jersey for his or her sister Katie’s wedding ceremony, had been driving bikes after they had been struck by a driver suspected of being inebriated, in accordance with police. The suspected driver was arrested and has pleaded not responsible to expenses of aggravated manslaughter, vehicular murder, proof tampering and leaving the scene of an accident.
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“Our children did not deserve this,” Meredith stated. “John and Mattie did not even deserve that, particularly the best way it occurred. It retains me up at night time.”
“There is not any therapeutic once you did not get a goodbye,” Matthew Gaudreau’s spouse, Madeline Gaudreau, stated.
On the brothers’ funeral, Meredith stated she advised her husband “that I’d handle our youngsters, and I thanked him for such an incredible life.”
On the time of the brothers’ deaths, Meredith was a mother to her and Johnny’s two younger youngsters.
Madeline and Meredith Gaudreau sat down for an unique interview with GMA.
Madeline and Meredith had been additionally each pregnant when their husbands died.
Madeline’s child, Tripp, was born 4 months later and Meredith — who introduced her being pregnant on the funeral — gave beginning to child Carter eight months after the crash.
Madeline stated that on the funeral “Tripp was kicking loads, so I simply held Matt’s hand on my stomach for Tripp.”
“I did not wanna say goodbye to both of them as a result of I do know I am going to see them once more in the future,” she stated.
The prolonged interview with Meredith and Madeline Gaudreau will air on “Good Morning America” on Aug. 13, which might have been Johnny Gaudreau’s thirty second birthday.
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