{"id":631484,"date":"2026-05-08T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/631484\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:49:08","slug":"the-wire-actor-james-ransones-wife-gives-family-update-after-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/631484\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Wire&#8217; actor James Ransone&#8217;s wife gives family update after his death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Wire\u201d actor James Ransone\u2019s widow, Jamie McPhee, opened up about single parenting five months after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/21\/entertainment\/the-wire-actor-james-ransone-dies-by-suicide-at-46\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her husband\u2019s death<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>McPhee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DX9pJc9jhFI\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">shared an Instagram post <\/a>Tuesday for her son Jack\u2019s 7th birthday and thanked her family and friends for helping raise her and Ransone\u2019s two children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaby king Jack is 7 today. \ud83d\ude2d I can\u2019t believe it,\u201d  McPhee began her tribute to her son, which included photos of the family of four.<\/p>\n<p>James Ransone\u2019s widow, Jamie McPhee, opened up about single parenting in her Instagram tribute to son Jack on his 7th birthday (McPhee and Jack are pictured above). jamie mcphee\/ instagram<\/p>\n<p>McPhee thanked her family and friends for helping her raise her two children (Ransone is seen above with his two children). jamie mcphee\/ instagram<\/p>\n<p>McPhee wrote, \u201cTo all of our friends and family \u2013 it takes a village indeed. We love everyone so much\u201d (Ransone is pictured above with son Jack). jamie mcphee\/ instagram<\/p>\n<p>She called Jack \u201cthe most handsome, stubborn, funny, affectionate, strong boy,\u201d adding, \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t want it any other way. Love you to the moon and back!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McPee continued, \u201cAnd to all of our friends and family \u2013 it takes a village indeed. We love everyone so much. Thank you for all your support, love, kindness, food, tears, and laughs these last 5 months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the end of her post, McPhee said she \u201ccan finally see that every day is a gift\u201d after losing her husband.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo on this one we celebrate Jack together,\u201d she added. \u201cThank you thank you thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McPhee (seen above with Ransone and their kids) said that she \u201ccan finally see that every day is a gift\u201d after losing her husband. GoFundMe<\/p>\n<p>McPhee shared multiple pictures of Jack (seen above) in the sweet tribute. jamie mcphee\/ instagram<\/p>\n<p>Along with Jack (pictured above), Ransone and McPhee have a daughter, Violet. jamie mcphee\/ instagram<\/p>\n<p>Ransone married McPhee in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cIt Chapter Two\u201d actor <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/08\/entertainment\/the-wire-star-james-ransones-cause-of-death-revealed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died by suicide<\/a> in December in Los Angeles. He was 46.<\/p>\n<p>McPhee <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/22\/entertainment\/james-ransones-widow-breaks-silence-following-the-actors-suicide\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shared a heartbreaking tribute to her spouse<\/a> after his death, thanking him for giving her \u201cthe greatest gifts\u201d: their two children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are forever,\u201d McPhee added. \u201cI told you I have loved you 1000 times before and I know I will love you again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Ransone (seen above with his family) died by suicide in December 2025 at age 46. jaime mcphee\/ instagram<\/p>\n<p>McPhee and Ransone (pictured above with their two kids) got married in 2017. jaime mcphee\/ instagram<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/supporting-jamie-jack-and-violet-after-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">A GoFundMe page<\/a>\u00a0was created after Ransone\u2019s death to help McPhee and her kids \u201cnavigate life after an unimaginable loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fundraiser has raised over $251,000 as of Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Ransone opened up about his struggle with addiction in 2016, telling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/film\/james-ransone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Interview Magazine<\/a> that he got sober at age 27 \u201cafter being on heroin for five years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Wire\u201d actor James Ransone\u2019s widow, Jamie McPhee, opened up about single parenting five months after her husband\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,2865,7569,5654,91,88,182258],"class_list":["post-631484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-couples","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-families","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-the-wire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631484","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=631484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}