‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ cast reacts to Nicholas Brendon’s death: ‘My sweet Nicky’

“Buffy nan Vampire Slayer” formed members are remembering their co-star Nicholas Brendon pursuing his death astatine property 54.

Co-star Alyson Hannigan, who played Willow Rosenberg connected nan beloved series, took to Instagram with a heartfelt goodbye connected Friday.

“My Sweet Nicky, convey you for years of laughter, emotion and Dodgers,” she captioned a still from Season 6 of nan series. “I will deliberation of you each clip I spot a rocking chair.  I emotion you. RIP 💔😢.”

The actor’s decease was announced by family successful a societal media connection connected Friday.

“We are heartbroken to stock nan passing of our relative and son, Nicholas Brendon,” nan connection read. “He passed successful his slumber of earthy causes. Most group cognize Nicky for his activity arsenic an character and for nan characters he brought to life complete nan years.”

“In caller years Nicky has recovered his passion successful coating and art. Nicky loved to stock his enthusiastic talent pinch his family, friends and fans,” it continued.

“He was passionate, sensitive, and endlessly driven to create. Those who genuinely knew him understood that his creation was 1 of nan purest reflections of who he was.”

“While it’s nary concealed that Nicholas had struggles successful nan past, he was connected medications and curen to negociate his test and he was optimistic astir nan early astatine nan clip of his passing.”

The connection concluded by asking nan nationalist for privateness arsenic nan actor’s surviving family members “grieve his nonaccomplishment and observe nan life of a man who lived pinch intensity, imagination, and heart.”

Prior to his death, nan “Criminal Minds” alum had been hospitalized after suffering a “cardiac incident” successful 2022, and was diagnosed pinch a congenital bosom defect.

“Nicky is doing good now but he had to beryllium rushed to emergency astir 2 weeks agone because of a cardiac incident (tachycardia/arrhythmia),” his sister captioned a since-deleted carousel on his Instagram account astatine nan time, showing nan beloved character successful an ambulance and infirmary room.

“Some of you mightiness retrieve he had a akin incident aft his 2nd spinal room past twelvemonth (for Cauda Equina) but this time. He is trying to get a small much remainder and has been concentrating connected aesculapian appointments.”

The character had besides undergone spinal surgeries successful caller years to address paralysis successful his legs and genitals, which his head had claimed was exacerbated by sleeping connected actual successful a jailhouse compartment pursuing an arrest for medicine fraud successful 2021.

In a 2017 question and reply pinch nan A.V. Club, nan actor, who played Xander Harris successful “Buffy,” gushed complete nan cast.

When asked who he’d play if he weren’t formed arsenic Xander, he quipped, “Buffy, and for reasons I won’t moreover show you.”

He added, “It’s conscionable that everyone did specified a awesome job. It was 1 of those shows that I conscionable consciousness was perfectly cast.”