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MasterChef Australia star Sofia Levin has revealed that she has recently lost her father following his battle with motor neuron disease.
The judge has taken to Instagram to share a heartfelt tribute after he passed away on July 8, 2024. Levin shared a carousel of photos with her dad, Greg Levin, as well as a great photo of her parents on their wedding day.
“Five days without the best person I’ve ever known,” the food critic began.
“The burden of enormous love is that when someone dies, the sorrow is proportional. Our family has never missed an ‘I love you’ or left anything unsaid.
“Despite Dad’s MND diagnosis in January 2022, we have travelled, laughed and held each other tightly.”
Over the years, Levin has been relatively open about her Dad’s battle and has regularly shared photos on her Instagram page.
“I feel indescribably lucky to have had 34 years of Greg as my father,” she continued.
“We shared more than most could ever dream of in twice that. Lots of people think they have the best dad or the best husband; the difference with our family is that everyone else thought that about Greg, too.”
She then went on to describe a conversation her family had just months prior where they discussed who they would each like to come back as after they’d passed away.
“When it came to dad’s turn, he said without hesitation, from his wheelchair, ‘I’d come back as me,'” Levin revealed.
“The hardest part about Dad not being here is that we know how much he loved his life. He didn’t believe in heaven, but in his memoir, published just before he died, he wrote: ‘My family and my friends, that’s heaven for me.’ He was our heaven, too.
“I wrote this the day after he died in hospital with his soulmate by his side, showing the kind of bravery no one should ever have to bear.”
Levin finished her post will some beautiful words, written as a poem. The heartbreaking message read:
“If I resemble my father I hope it is more than the dimple of his chin and the pancake flatness of his feet. If in the days and years to come I am recognised as Greg’s daughter I hope it is in his effortless calm, embodied kindness and profound, transcendent love. Perhaps he will live on not just in photographs and anecdotes, but in my gestures, humour and turns of phrase.
“May the pieces of him that make me whole, surface when I need them most, piercing through the shroud of his absence to give meaning to my heartache.”
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