\u201cMy little sister [was] freaking out, saying that Dad\u2019s gone and that he got caught up in a barn fire, and I\u2019m like, \u2018What do you mean?\u2019<\/p>\n
Brown was a former boxer and actor in The Wire and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. Photo \/ IMDb<\/p>\n
\u201cI literally went outside and put both my feet on my front walk.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s cold, and I stood out in my bare feet in a nightgown because I wanted to make sure I was really awake. I did that to make sure I was in actual reality and not dreaming this up, and then I did it for a grounding exercise. I couldn\u2019t believe it. I was like, this isn\u2019t real. And I still don\u2019t even feel like it\u2019s real.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody is still trying to process it. It\u2019s been difficult for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reina credits her faith for helping her to stay strong through her grief.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cI\u2019m his oldest, and I\u2019m also one of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, and I will say, it\u2019s my faith that\u2019s keeping me sane right now.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dad was an amazing human being. He was super awesome. He was a pillar in the community, and he\u2019s going to be missed by a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bobby\u2019s agent, Albert Bramante, is \u201cdeeply saddened\u201d by the actor\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
He told People: \u201cBobby J. Brown was an actor of immense talent and even greater integrity. He approached his work with a discipline and a passion that were truly inspiring to witness.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile his career included many notable performances, it was his unwavering dedication to the craft of acting that defined him as an artist.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are deeply saddened by this loss and ask for privacy for his family and loved ones during this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bobby – who grew up in Washington D.C. \u2013 was a successful boxer before he began acting, winning five Golden Glove Championships but after moving to New Jersey to pursue a professional sporting career, he had a change of heart and went on to move to New York to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.<\/p>\n
As well as roles in The Wire, The Corner and We Own This City, Bobby also directed two documentaries, Off the Chain \u2013 which was about the abuse of American pit bull terriers \u2013 and Tear the Roof Off: The Untold Story of Parliament Funkadelic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMy little sister [was] freaking out, saying that Dad\u2019s gone and that he got caught up in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53519,1081,3376,74,1975,47035,47187,6256,6179,7126,156,2079,158371,111,139,69,223,19658],"class_list":{"0":"post-305807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-53519","9":"tag-accident","10":"tag-actor","11":"tag-after","12":"tag-at","13":"tag-barn","14":"tag-bobby","15":"tag-brown","16":"tag-died","17":"tag-dies","18":"tag-entertainment","19":"tag-fire","20":"tag-j","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-the","25":"tag-wire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}