Treat Williams’ wife celebrates wedding anniversary 2 weeks after his death
Pam van Sant honored the late Treat Williams on what would have been their 35th wedding anniversary.
“Happy anniversary baby! 35 years,” the 68-year-old producer wrote a photo of their wedding day in 1988 via Williams’ Instagram Story on Sunday, June 25.
Van Sant showed snapshots of her and the late Everwood star celebrates the holidays and their first wedding anniversary, which they enjoyed “on location in Bali,” the producer wrote.
The anniversary came just two weeks after Williams’ unexpected passing. He died after a motorcycle accident on June 12 at the age of 71.
“He was killed this afternoon. He made left or right [and] a car cut him off,” the actor’s rep, Barry McPherson, told me Us weekly in a statement on June 12. “I’m just broken. He was the nicest man. He was so talented.”
McPherson continued, “He was an actor. Filmmakers loved him. He has been the heart of Hollywood since the late 1970s. He was very proud of his performance this year. He is so happy with the work I gave him. He’s had a balanced career.”
The Her star is survived by his and Van Sant’s two children: son Gill Williams, 31, and daughter Elinor “Ellie” Williams, 25.
“This is a pain I have never felt before. I am absolutely devastated,” Ellie wrote via her Instagram story just hours after Treat’s death made headlines, sharing a throwback photo of her father. “Thank you to everyone who has messaged and held our family in your hearts during this terrible heartbreak.”
Treat was buried in a private memorial service on Monday, June 19 in Vermont, where he lived. Vermont had long been his favorite place to spend time.
The Chesapeake Shores alum began traveling to the Green Mountain State on family vacations when he was growing up, and he bought his home there with Van Sant at the beginning of their marriage.
“I bought the house we are in now 35 years ago. I’ve always had a huge love for Vermont, winter and summer,” Treat gushed Vermont magazine in 2021. “There was something incredibly special about it for me, and the people here are incredibly honest, genuine and good humored. There is also always something new to discover somewhere on an unpaved road that you have never driven on before.”
The actor added at the time: “I think very few people are lucky enough to say, ‘I love where I live.’ “I have no fantasies of being anywhere else. I have everything I want and need in Vermont. I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a place as beautiful as Vermont.”