Caitlyn Jenner ‘Hit Extremely Hard’ by the Shocking Death of Manager Sophia Hutchins: Source

Caitlyn Jenner is reeling from the tragic death of her best friend and confidante Sophia Hutchins — and the reality TV reject is close to an emotional collapse as she’s lost the only person in the world who she could consistently rely on, sources say.

Sophia perished July 2 at age 29 after her ATV rear-ended a car and went careening 350 feet down into a ravine near Caitlyn’s $3.5 million California mansion, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department told Daily Mail. The former gold medal–winning Olympian’s manager was pronounced dead at the scene.

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

According to sources, Sophia was the 75-year-old’s main support through all of life’s highs and lows.

For decades, Cait was known as jock Bruce Jenner. But in 2015 she came out publicly as a trans woman — months after her 23-year marriage to reality matriarch Kris Jenner went kaput. Her  journey was documented in TV’s I Am Cait, which lasted one season.

Cait later dished about her family in the 2017 book The Secrets of My Life — and on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Kris said that she was “angry” about her portrayal in the tell-all.

Amid the fallout, Cait failed to score a spot on Hulu’s The Kardashians with Kris, their daughters Kylie and Kendall Jenner, and stepkids Kim, Kourtney, Khloé and Robert Kardashian, and launched a doomed bid to become California’s governor.

On July 3, hours after the fatal accident, Cait somberly confessed to a Daily Mail reporter that she was going through “tough times.”

Now, the insider says that even though all of Caitlyn’s loved ones are rallying around her as she mourns Sophia’s death, “she feels utterly miserable and alone.”