Former Thunder assistant and New Orleans Head Coach Monty Williams, lost his wife due to a car crash earlier this year, and he sat down with ESPN to provide more insight into how he is coping. During the interview, Williams revealed that he still texts his late wife as part of his daily routine.
Here is what he said to ESPN:
“Do you find yourself talking to her?”
“Yeah, I still text her. Yeah. It’s not like I know she’s going to answer — I know she’s not going to answer — but it’s just part of what I do. I’ll go outside at night and I’ll just look up in the sky and start talking to her. When you’ve been with somebody for 26 years and married for 20, you know, you would just have to be around us to know what we were like. So I find myself doing everything that I can, that I knew she would do, especially with the kids. Because she was the one who I could bounce my life off of, and she wasn’t afraid to tell me the truth. The reality is we live in a world that’s filled with stuff, and quitting is not an option. It’s just life. You have to be able to get up, face your flaws, and just, whatever it is — a step, an inch — you’ve just got to keep moving forward.”
Monty Williams should be applauded for sitting down and sharing his tragedy with the world, because he did not have to do that. By sharing his struggle with the public, it will encourage someone else that is going through a similar situation and perhaps give them the courage needed to face another day.
