Jock Zonfrillo’s heartbroken widow Lauren Fried has poured her heart out in a poignant social media post as she marked her first Christmas without her husband.
On Tuesday, Lauren took to social media to share an emotional post accompanied by heartwarming footage of her two children, Alfie and Isla, on Christmas day.
The clip sees the kids wrapped in the warmth of family love, opening presents and receiving comforting hugs from their mother.
‘It’s different this year. No less love or excitement, just my stubbornness to see the kid’s faces light up in spite of it all,’ she explained.
The post continued with a reflection on the arduous journey ahead.
Jock Zonfrillo’s heartbroken widow Lauren Fried has poured her heart out in a poignant social media post as she marked her first Christmas without her husband. Both pictured
On Tuesday, Lauren took to social media to share an emotional post accompanied by heartwarming footage of her two children, Alfie and Isla, on Christmas day
‘Watching our gorgeous children navigating their first Xmas, I can see now that tragedy will make them. It will make them fierce and fearless, they’ll have a strength no-one can quite put their finger on,’ she continued.
The message was not only one of personal perseverance but also of gratitude.
Lauren also acknowledged the overwhelming kindness that has been extended to her family in the wake of Jock’s passing.
The clip sees the children wrapped in the warmth of family love
‘It’s different this year. No less love or excitement, just my stubbornness to see the kid’s faces light up in spite of it all,’ she explained
Jock died in his hotel room at Zagame’s House on Lygon Street in Carlton, Melbourne on April 30 and was found by police at about 2am on Monday, May 1 – the same day Channel Ten was meant to premiere the fifteenth season of MasterChef Australia.
He is survived by his third wife Lauren, and his four children: grown-up daughters Ava and Sophia from his first two marriages and Alfie and Isla with Lauren.
The media personality was scheduled for several publicity engagements for season 15 of MasterChef when he died suddenly.
‘Watching our gorgeous children navigating their first Xmas, I can see now that tragedy will make them. It will make them fierce and fearless, they’ll have a strength no-one can quite put their finger on’
Daily Mail Australia can reveal that when the police entered the hotel room to conduct a welfare check, officers believed that Jock had died of natural causes and didn’t find anything that suggested otherwise.
There was also no drug paraphernalia found in the hotel room, sources said.
A heartbroken Lauren said at his funeral: ‘We were two halves that found each other in the exact right moment in life when we were ready.’
‘We were ready for that big love, to live a life of adventure, to become parents together, to imagine things and to actually make them happen.’
Zonfrillo died in his hotel room at Zagame’s House on Lygon Street in Carlton, Melbourne on April 30 and was found by police at about 2am on Monday, May 1
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