Channing Tatum Reacts to James Ransone’s Death by Suicide at 46

Channing Tatum is mourning the death of his former The Son of No One costar James Ransone after his death at age 46.

“There ain’t words for these things, but you my friend … was one of the realest,” Tatum, 45, wrote via his Instagram Stories on Tuesday, December 23. “I remember being in every conversation with you and just always being, like, ‘I wonder what he’s gonna say!???’ Lololol.”

Tatum concluded, “I love you, PJ. I’ll see you on the next one, my G.”

Tatum and Ransone played police officers in the 2011 crime drama, The Son of No One, directed by Dito Montiel.

“He is probably the nicest, most ego-less actor I have ever worked with for the size of his celebrity and how he handles himself on set with the crew,” Ransone previously gushed of working with the Magic Mike actor during a 2011 interview. “I mean, it’s been the smoothest thing that I could imagine working on. He’s really great.”

Us Weekly confirmed 14 years later that Ransone died by suicide on Friday, December 19. He is survived by his wife, Jamie McPhee, and their two children.

“I told you I have loved you 1000 times before and I know I will love you again,” McPhee wrote via Instagram on Sunday, December 21, breaking her silence after Ransone’s death. “You told me, ‘I need to be more like you and you need to be more like me,’ and you were so right. Thank you for giving me the greatest gifts — you, Jack and Violet. We are forever.”

Two days later, McPhee offered an update into how she was coping with the loss.

“Today, I took our kids with my angel Kristen to the Glendale Mall. They wanted ice cream after the park,” she wrote via Instagram on Tuesday. “Violet picked out a pink backpack. Jack made me buy and then build things at the Lego store. For the first time in my life, it was clear that people recognized me.”

McPhee continued, “I told a friend later, and she said, ‘It makes you realize you never really know what people are going through.’ And that’s true. Because in many moments we looked … happy. Normal. Laughing. Smiling. How? Not because we aren’t grieving. We are, but because I have two beautiful, incredible children who force me *daily* to see all the love and all the light that still exists inside of this.”

In her social media message, McPhee also shared a letter to her late husband.

“PJ, the outpouring of love for you is truly beyond anything you could ever imagine,” McPhee wrote, using Ransone’s nickname. “But more than that this devastating loss has also given so many an unbelievable gift. I have been told countless stories, and there are probably a hundred thousand more I still haven’t heard of people reconnecting. Of friendships healing after years of silence. Of truths finally being spoken. Of old pain being brought into the light and somehow… softening.”

She concluded, “In the weeks before you left us, after months of telling me nearly every regret you’d ever carried: every mistake, every f***-up, every hurtful thing you thought you’d wrote or said, you burst into tears and said: ‘Babe, you know the most f***ed-up thing of all?’ I actually love everyone.’”

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