{"id":206985,"date":"2025-10-12T07:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/206985\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T07:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:35:12","slug":"sarah-michelle-gellar-pays-tribute-to-michelle-trachtenberg-with-heartfelt-birthday-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/206985\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Michelle Gellar pays tribute to Michelle Trachtenberg with heartfelt birthday message"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Michelle Gellar is remembering her late friend and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/a>” co-star Michelle Trachtenberg on what would have been her 40th birthday.<\/p>\n

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In this Oct. 12, 2004, file poto, Michelle Trachtenberg and Sarah Michelle Gellar are shown at the premiere of “The Grudge” in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Lee Celano\/WireImage via Getty Images, FILE<\/p>\n

On Oct. 11, Gellar posted a photo of the two of them together with the caption, \u201cWhen you turned 16, it was hard not to still see you as the little girl I met on All My Children. When you turned 21, I had to teach myself to not see you as the little sister anymore,\u201d Gellar wrote. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine what 40 would have been like. This I know\u2026 it would be filled with love. Happy birthday @michelletrachtenberg.\u201d<\/p>\n

The post was set to Charlie Puth and Wiz Khalifa\u2019s song \u201cSee You Again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trachtenberg, best known for her roles in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Gossip Girl,” died earlier this year<\/a> at age 39.<\/p>\n

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In this Aug. 12, 2001, file photo, Michelle Trachtenberg and Sarah Michelle Gellar attend the Third Annual Teen Choice Awards at Universal Amphitheatre in Universal City, Calif.<\/p>\n

Steve Granitz\/WireImage via Getty Images, FILE<\/p>\n

She was found in her New York City apartment near Columbus Circle, according to police sources.<\/p>\n

The New York City medical examiner later confirmed<\/a> she died of natural causes due to complications from diabetes. No foul play was suspected.<\/p>\n

Following Trachtenberg\u2019s death, Gellar<\/a> shared another tribute in February, writing: \u201cMichelle, listen to me. Listen. I love you. I will always love you. The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. I will be brave. I will live\u2026 for you,\u201d echoing one of Buffy\u2019s most memorable lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah Michelle Gellar is remembering her late friend and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” co-star Michelle Trachtenberg on what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-206985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}