{"id":2329,"date":"2026-05-15T21:40:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/beloved-author-announces-husbands-death-just-days-after-revealing-fatal-illness\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:40:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:40:43","slug":"beloved-author-announces-husbands-death-just-days-after-revealing-fatal-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/beloved-author-announces-husbands-death-just-days-after-revealing-fatal-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved author announces husband&#8217;s death just days after revealing &#8216;fatal illness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/127882421.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Author Cheryl Strayed announced that her husband, filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, died on Friday. He was 65.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrian Lindstrom died this morning the way he lived\u2014with gentleness and courage, grace and gratitude for his beautiful life. Our children, Carver and Bobbi, and I held him as he took his last breath and we will hold him forever in our hearts,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYXXkohRulA\/?igsh=MTVoZmhlcXEwM3ZjOQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote via Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cWild\u201d author revealed Lindstrom was <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/01\/celebrity-news\/author-cheryl-strayed-reveals-husband-brian-lindstrom-has-serious-fatal-illness\/\">diagnosed with a \u201cserious, fatal illness\u201d<\/a> on May 1. In her heartbreaking statement on Friday, she shared that he had lost his battle to Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Cheryl Strayed\u2019s husband, filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, (pictured here) has died.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/cherylstrayed<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The \u201cWild\u201d author announced the heartbreaking news via Instagram on Friday.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/cherylstrayed<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWhat tremendous luck it was to be his partner for more than thirty years. We loved each other and our kids with deep devotion and true delight. He was a stellar husband,\u201d the writer, 57, continued, adding that he was \u201che most magnificent dad\u201d to their two children: 21-year-old daughter Bobbi and 20 year-old son Carver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a man whose every word and deed was driven by kindness, compassion, and generosity. He saw the goodness in everyone. He believed that we are all sacred and redeemable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Strayed also praised his work as a filmmaker, noting that her late husband told stories \u201cof people who, as he put it, \u2018society puts an X through.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cBrian Lindstrom died this morning the way he lived\u2014with gentleness and courage, grace and gratitude for his beautiful life,\u201d she wrote. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/cherylstrayed<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>In her statement, Strayed also revealed that her husband had lost his husband to Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/cherylstrayed<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe erased that X with his camera and his astonishing heart. He made films about incarcerated moms and their kids, about people with mental illness and substance use disorders, about teens living in homeless shelters, foster care, and detention centers, about people who were at the bottom and trying to climb up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But above his impressive career in film, Strayed wrote that Lindstrom\u2019s \u201cgreatest legacy\u201d is their two children \u201cwho embody everything good and true about their father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir extraordinary grace, courage, and fortitude during this harrowing time was unfaltering and grounded in the undying love Brian poured into them every day of their lives,\u201d she gushed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cWhat tremendous luck it was to be his partner for more than thirty years. We loved each other and our kids with deep devotion and true delight,\u201d she continued. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/cherylstrayed<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Strayed also praised Lindstrom\u2019s long career as a filmmaker and documentarian. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/cherylstrayed<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Strayed concluded, \u201cWe do not know how we will live without him. We\u2019re utterly bereft. We can only walk this dark path and search for the beauty Brian knew was there. It will be his eternal light that guides us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the \u201cMind Over Mountain\u201d podcast host first announced Lindstrom\u2019s illness, she asked her followers to hold her family \u201cin your thoughts, prayers, light and love.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She also canceled her writing workshop\u00a0and upcoming appearance at Hunter College\u00a0to stay by his side.<\/p>\n<p>Strayed is the author of \u201cTorch,\u201d \u201cWild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail,\u201d \u201cTiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar\u201d and \u201cBrave Enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her memoir \u201cWild\u201d was adapted into a 2014 film\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2021\/06\/16\/reese-witherspoon-had-panic-attacks-before-filming-wild\/\">starring Reese Witherspoon as Strayed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The couple shared two kids, whom Strayed wrote, \u201cembody everything good and true about their father.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/cherylstrayed<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>She also said their adult children are Lindstrom\u2019s \u201cgreatest legacy.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/cherylstrayed<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTiny Beautiful Things,\u201d based on her advice column, was adapted into a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/02\/kathryn-hahn-charms-as-a-slovenly-columnist-in-tiny-beautiful-things\/?_gl=1*pwj764*_gcl_au*MTY4NjUzMDg4MS4xNzc1NTA3MTg2*_ga*MTYyODY0MjY4LjE3Nzg3NzQ0Njg.*_ga_0DZ7LHF5PZ*czE3Nzg4NzI3NDkkbzckZzEkdDE3Nzg4Nzg5NTgkajE1JGwwJGgw\">2023 Hulu series starring Kathryn Hahn<\/a>, while \u201cWild\u201d earned Witherspoon an Academy Award nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Documentarian Lindstrom is known for directing 2013\u2019s \u201cAlien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse\u201d and 2022\u2019s \u201cLost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The couple also co-directed the 2019 film \u201cWe Are Forbidden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They first met in 1995, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CherylStrayed\/posts\/met-this-beautiful-man-27-years-ago-todayliterally-half-my-lifetime-ago-the-next\/671346201017839\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per a\u00a02022 Facebook post<\/a> from Strayed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Strayed and Lindstrom (pictured here with Jon Stewart in 2014) first met in 1995.<br \/>\n <span class=\"credit\">Vivien Killilea<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cHe\u2019s always, always, always been there for me, every time I needed him. He encourages me. He believes in me,\u201d Strayed wrote of her husband in a 2022 Facebook post. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMet this beautiful man 27 years ago today \u2014 literally half my lifetime ago,\u201d Strayed\u00a0wrote at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was writing \u2018Torch,\u2019 he believed in me more than I believed in myself. He\u2019s always, always, always been there for me, every time I needed him. He encourages me. He believes in me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s an amazing person and an amazing filmmaker,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people ask us if we\u2019re jealous of each other or competitive because we\u2019re both artists. We\u2019re always mystified by that because we support each other in every way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/15\/celebrity-news\/beloved-author-announces-husbands-death-just-days-after-revealing-fatal-illness\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Cheryl Strayed announced that her husband, filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, died on Friday. 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