{"id":118786,"date":"2025-08-29T16:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/118786\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T16:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:23:07","slug":"johnny-gaudreaus-wife-shares-heartbreaking-message-1-year-after-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/118786\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Gaudreau’s Wife Shares Heartbreaking Message 1 Year After His Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meredith Gaudreau<\/a> said she’s “one year closer to seeing” her late husband Johnny Gaudreau<\/a> on the first anniversary of his death.\n<\/p>\n

Meredith, who welcomed her third child with her late husband on April 1, posted a heartfelt tribute to Johnny on Aug. 29, the first anniversary of when Johnny, 31, and his brother Matthew Gaudreau<\/a>, 29, were\u00a0killed last August<\/a>\u00a0when an\u00a0alleged drunk driver<\/a>\u00a0crashed into them while they were riding bicycles the day before their sister\u00a0Katie Gaudreau<\/a>‘s wedding.\n<\/p>\n

“I have the best husband,” Meredith wrote in an emotional tribute on her Instagram Stories on Friday. “One year closer to seeing you again and being with you forever. Forever for real.”<\/p>\n

Meredith shared a tribute video to Johnny originally posted by his former Columbus Blue Jackets hockey team and the NHL. Under the video, Meredith wrote that for her Aug. 29 reminds her not of the anniversary of his death, but what the day originally meant to the two of them \u2014 the anniversary of their engagement, on Aug. 29, 2020.\n<\/p>\n

“8\/29 is a reminder of what forever means to me,” Meredith wrote. “I love you.”<\/p>\n

Johnny and Meredith Gaudreau via Instagram.<\/p>\n

Meredith Gaudreau\/Instagram<\/p>\n

The mother of three revealed her plans to spend the anniversary with her children and sister-in-law Madeline Gaudreau in a profile with The Athletic<\/a> on Aug. 27. Meredith shared that they planned to spend the day at the Jersey Shore creating new memories.\n<\/p>\n

In June, Meredith detailed in a\u00a0Player\u2019s Tribune<\/a>\u00a0essay<\/a> the \u201cawful\u201d and \u201cindescribable\u201d moment she learned that her husband and her brother-in-law\u00a0were killed last August \u2014 exactly four years after the star hockey forward got down on one knee and proposed near their families\u2019 homes in Avalon, New Jersey.\n<\/p>\n

Meredith said Johnny made breakfast for their daughter Noa, 2, and son Johnny, 1, on the morning of the tragedy before packing their car for his sister Katie’s wedding the next day. \u201cIt was going to be a great day,” she wrote in the essay, adding, \u201cYou kissed all of us goodbye and said you\u2019d see us later. And that was that.”\n<\/p>\n

Then, Meredith recalled, there was a worried call from Johnny\u2019s sister telling her \u201csomething had happened but she didn\u2019t know what exactly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad drove me over to your parents\u2019, and I was thinking the whole time about how I was going to help you through whatever it could be that had happened to Matty,\u201d Meredith wrote. \u201cAnd then I walked up the front porch and learned the absolute worst had happened and that it was both of you.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Johnny and Meredith Gaudreau via Instagram.<\/p>\n

Columbus Blue Jackets\/Instagram<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in shock,\u201d she recalled. \u201cI was keeled over for days sick to my stomach. It\u2019s completely indescribable. The only person who can relate to me is my own sister-in-law. I see her and my heart breaks for her. I\u2019m sick for her. We had just celebrated their gender reveal. We were all just down the shore together and had so much fun. Matty made me laugh so much that weekend.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Meredith \u2014 who was just a few weeks pregnant at the time with their third child \u2014 added that she “thought of our baby inside of me” after learning the news.\n<\/p>\n

“I couldn\u2019t stand up. I was awake and having nightmares. Thinking of you in that moment. Thinking of Matty. It\u2019s just the worst thing I could have ever imagined. And in an instant, I missed you more than I knew was possible. And I haven\u2019t stopped missing you since. That feeling never goes away. I\u2019m so sorry. I love you so much. I miss you every second of every day. I miss you more and more every day as well. My love grows deeper for you each day too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meredith Gaudreau said she’s “one year closer to seeing” her late husband Johnny Gaudreau on the first anniversary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-118786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}