Caitlyn Jenner Breaks Silence on Sophia Hutchins’ ‘Difficult’ Death, Says She’s ‘Dealing With Grief’

Caitlyn Jenner is opening up about the devastating loss of her best friend and manager, Sophia Hutchins. 

On Thursday, August 28, the Olympic gold medalist, 75, appeared on Fox News and brought up Hutchins’ death while discussing the recent mass shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which killed two children.

“Recently, my good friend Sophia passed away in a tragic accident,” Jenner remarked. “For the last seven weeks, I’ve been dealing with death, and it’s so difficult.”

“So, when this happened, it really hit me hard,” she admitted. “Here I am dealing with my grief, and I just can’t even imagine parents who dropped their kid off at school and, like that father just said, ‘I’ll never get a chance to talk to him again.’ That is just so horrible.”

“I’ve been dealing with grief, and these people have a long road ahead of them, and they’re going to be dealing with grief,” the Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum added.

On Wednesday, July 2, Hutchins perished in an ATV accident while driving on Jenner’s street in Malibu, according to TMZ. Hutchins was 29 years old.

As Globe previously reported, the decathlete and Hutchins knew each other since 2015 and shared a close bond.

“Everyone knows Cait and Sophia were two linked souls and held each other in strictest confidence, so her death has hit extremely hard,” a source told Globe last month. “There are fears that she may never recover from her despair.”