Sarah Jessica Parker has offered up a tribute to her late step-father Paul Giffin Forste after his unexpected death. “Godspeed. RIP. Strong like a bull. Til the end,” Parker, 57, captioned an Instagram post. “At home and among all those who loved you dearly, you will be missed always…We will take good care of Mommy, who you worshipped for 54 years.”
Forste had been a stable presence in Parker’s life since she was three when he married her mother Barbara Parker. And while the house was full of love according to Parker, the family was not without struggle.
“We were on welfare,” the Divorce alum told The New York Times in 2000. “I remember being poor. There was no great way to hide it. We didn’t have electricity sometimes. We didn’t have Christmases sometimes, or we didn’t have birthdays sometimes, or the bill collectors came, or the phone company would call and say, ‘We’re shutting your phones off.’”
Following the announcement of his death, Parker’s family released a statement to ET. “Paul will be remembered with the spirit of loving kindness which was his faith, his special delight in his 13 grandchildren, and his sustained belief in making the world a more charitable, tolerant, and beautiful place for all.”
The cause of Forste’s death was not disclosed though it was described as a rapid and unexpected illness. Despite the passing SJP was seen returning to the set of “And Just Like That…” in order to shoot the second season.
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