Caitlyn Jenner has spoken out about her friend and manager\u2019s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cRecently my good friend Sophia passed away in a tragic accident,\u201d Jenner, 75, said during an appearance on Fox. \u201cBut for the last seven weeks, I\u2019ve been dealing with death, and it\u2019s so difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophia Hutchins was killed in an ATV crash<\/a> at age 29 on July 2.<\/p>\n Sophia Hutchins and Caitlyn Jenner at Vanity Fair: Hollywood Calling at Annenberg Space For Photography in Century City, California, on February 4, 2020. FilmMagic<\/p>\n Caitlyn Jenner and Sophia Hutchins at the ESPYS in LA on July 18, 2018. Getty Images<\/p>\n Caitlyn Jenner on Fox talking about Sophia Hutchins\u2019 death. FOX News<\/p>\n Hutchins, who was Jenner\u2019s longtime friend, manager, and a former Trump campaign surrogate,\u00a0was driving an ATV near Jenner\u2019s $3.5 million Malibu home when she hit the bumper of a moving vehicle.<\/p>\n The collision threw Hutchins down a 350-foot ravine<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n She was pronounced dead at the scene, and it was ruled an accident.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt looks like she may have been speeding and rear-ended the other car, the other party, and then that caused her to veer to the right and go off the cliff,\u201d Sgt. Eduardo Saucedo of the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department previously told the Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sophia Hutchins and Caitlyn Jenner at The Hollywood Reporter\u2019s Empowerment In Entertainment Event in LA in 2019. Getty Images for The Hollywood Reporter<\/p>\n Crash site where Caitlyn Jenner\u2019s longtime friend and manager Sophia Hutchins fell to her death. APEX \/ MEGA<\/p>\n Sophia Hutchins and Caitlyn Jenner at the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Getty Images<\/p>\n The Olympian previously told Daily Mail she was going through a \u201ctough time\u201d but did \u201cnot want to talk\u201d about the tragedy.<\/p>\n In 2017 and 2018, there were rumors Jenner was dating Hutchins, who was one year younger than Jenner\u2019s daughter, Kendall, 29.\u00a0<\/p>\n