Isabella Rossellini shared a simple and touching message following the death of director David Lynch, her former colleague and romantic partner.
“I loved him so much,” the Italian actor wrote in an Instagram post on Friday, alongside a photo of the pair posing for the camera while holding hands.
She continued by thanking the public “for all your kind messages.”
Lynch’s death was announced by his family on Wednesday. Months earlier, the “Twin Peaks” director had revealed he had been diagnosed with emphysema.
He and Rossellini met when Lynch was casting the 1987 neo-noir film “Blue Velvet.” Rossellini went on to star in the film, and the two of them began a romantic relationship that lasted about five years. She also appeared in Lynch’s 1990 crime romance “Wild At Heart.”
In a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session in 2014, Rossellini described Lynch as a “mixture of kindness and weirdness.” She recalled Mel Brooks dubbing him the “Jimmy Stewart from Mars” and said the nickname was “very fitting.”
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Now a resident of Long Island, New York, the “Conclave” actor told Variety last year that she and Lynch were still in touch.
Reminiscing on her relationships with both Lynch and ex-husband Martin Scorsese, she said, “There’s a part of you that never really stops being in love with them. You’re not in love in the sense that you want to be together, but you still care deeply about them. How could you not?”