Laura Benanti is opening up concerning the heartbreak she skilled after a being pregnant loss final week.
The Tony-winning actor and singer revealed on Instagram late Wednesday that she had a miscarriage whereas performing a live performance on The Broadway Cruise whereas crusing from New York to Bermuda.
“On Monday, April 3rd, I performed on stage for 2,000 people while having a miscarriage,” Benanti wrote, alongside {a photograph} exhibiting her mid-performance. “I knew it was happening. It started slowly the night before. If it had been our first loss or even our second, I likely wouldn’t have been able to go on. But unfortunately, I am not a stranger to the pain and emptiness of losing a pregnancy. It is a path I have walked before, hand in hand with my husband.”
She additionally expressed her gratitude to “some of the kindest, most loving humans I will ever have the honor to share space with” ― together with her household, members of her band, and the cruise’s manufacturing employees ― for his or her assist.
“Thank you to that little soul for choosing me as your home, even for a short time,” she added.
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Previously shared footage of that April 3 live performance reveals Benanti performing “You Are My Sunshine” and “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” along with her 6-year-old daughter, Ella. She and her husband, Patrick Brown, additionally share a 9-month-old daughter, Louisa, born final 12 months by way of a surrogate.
Later in her put up, Benanti stated she and Brown had been dedicated to “[moving] through this together as we, and so many others, have done before.”
“I share all of this not to garner sympathy or attention but to remind the many people and families who have and will suffer in this way that there is no shame in this kind of loss. That you are not alone,” she wrote. “And to remind myself as well.”
Legions of Broadway followers embraced Benanti for her performances in musicals like “Gypsy,” for which she acquired a Tony Award, in addition to “She Loves Me” and “My Fair Lady.”
From 2016 to 2020, she endeared herself to late-night audiences along with her impersonations of former first woman Melania Trump on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Other tv credit embody “Supergirl,” “Younger” and “Life & Beth.”
As Benanti’s put up indicated, this isn’t her first expertise with being pregnant loss. In 2016, she addressed an earlier miscarriage in an emotional weblog for HuffPost.
“Sometimes it can be helpful to know that someone out there has felt the same pain as you and that they are holding you in their heart,” she wrote on the time. “I am holding you in mine.”
