“I never thought my heart could break so badly,” wrote Beaver, who also lost his second wife Cecily Adams to cancer, the same disease that killed Fleming.

Jim Beaver pens heart-wrenching tribute to Supernatural wife and ‘soul mate’ Carrie Anne Fleming

"I never thought my heart could break so badly," wrote Beaver, who also lost his second wife Cecily Adams to cancer, the same disease that killed Fleming.

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- Jim Beaver is looking back on his relationship with his on-screen wife Carrie Anne Fleming after her death at 51 from breast cancer complications.

- Beaver said the death of his second wife, Cecily Adams, from cancer in 2004 "came near to destroying me." But after meeting Fleming on *Supernatural*, "I fell for her hard."

- "I never thought my heart could break so badly more than once. But it has. But, oh, the two torches I carry — what bright, bright light they shed," he shared.

Jim Beaver has shared a devastating tribute to Carrie Anne Fleming, his on-screen *Supernatural *wife, a month after her death at 51 from breast cancer complications.

"To find a soul mate once in life and lose her is unmitigated pain. To find one twice and lose them both is something that words cannot shape," Beaver wrote in a lengthy post shared to his Facebook on March 1.

The actor, who appeared as a veteran supernatural creature hunter and surrogate father figure to the characters played by series stars Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, was among the first to announce Fleming's Feb. 26 death. Beaver said his heart was "broken" by the death of the actress he described as "my friend, my lover, my bright light, my beautiful costar," who played his wife on *Supernatural*.

But in his full follow-up post, he explained just why Fleming's death hit him so hard.

Beaver opened up about his 15-year marriage to *Murphy Brown *actress and casting director Cecily Adams, who died in 2004 after a battle with cancer.

"Cecily's young death came near to destroying me. Far fewer know that I found something akin to that again some years after Cecily's death," he shared. "Carrie Anne Fleming was cast as my wife on *Supernatural* in my fifth season on the show. I fell for her hard, and I did it mere seconds after meeting her. To my joy and shock, it seems the same thing happened to her."

Beaver went on describe the actors' uncanny, first-meeting realization that they had both named their daughters Madeline Rose (though Fleming spelled her daughter's name Madalyn). "That, as also happens in the movies, was the beginning of a beautiful friendship," he recalled.

"We ran lines of [dialogue] together in my trailer and talked for hours that first day, and the electricity between us was practically visible," he continued. "She was a powerhouse of vitality and goodwill and amazingly good natured, with a rapturous laugh and an utterly adorable personality that didn't seem to have an off switch. I was so in love I think my eyes turned silver. She seemed to think I was worth hanging around with, too."

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Beaver explained that citizenship in different countries and the "legal ramifications" of child custody kept them "both physically and matrimonially apart." But Fleming "got me like only one other person really, truly ever has," so they resolved to "just [love] each other as best we could."

He concluded, "I lost Cecily to cancer in 2004. Thursday, I lost Carrie to the same disease. I never thought my heart could break so badly more than once. But it has. But, oh, the two torches I carry — what bright, bright light they shed."

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Though never a member of the core cast, Beaver nevertheless appeared in guest and recurring capacities on all 15 seasons of *Supernatural*, becoming one of the few to make the jump to the spinoff series *The Winchesters*.

His Bobby Singer rages against the most fearsome otherworldly beasts on the series with a ferocity revealed in season 3 to be motivated by the death of his wife, Karen. Fleming appears in Bobby's dreams as Karen only twice, but her impact on the character is felt throughout the full series run.

Carrie Anne Fleming in Vancouver in 2014.

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Beaver described his second wife's death as "still a fairly fresh wound" in a 2024 interview on the *Supernatural Then and Now* podcast. But on the "first day" meeting Fleming, the actor said he was "head over heels."

He cited the same issues of geography and custody in keeping them apart. "But the fact is we have a really wonderful relationship that stems from that episode, and we remained enormously close," he said. "We both love each other very much, but our lives went other ways."

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