WARWICK Davis has quit social media after the heartbreaking death of his wife Samantha.
Last week the actor, 54, confirmed Samantha had passed away aged 53.
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On Sunday the Harry Potter star took to X, formerly Twitter, to tell his followers he would be taking a break.
He wrote: “I’m done here, signing off.”
Warwick followed up with a broken heart emoji.
Worried fans rushed to comment on the post, with Warwick’s daughter Annabelle, 27, and son Harrison, 21, posting another message to reassure them.
Writing from their father’s account, they said: “Thank you everyone for looking out for our dad, he is taking some time away from social media.
“He apologises if his last message caused anyone concern. We appreciate all of your love and support, Annabelle and Harrison x.”
Devastated Warwick said in a statement last week: “Her passing has left a huge hole in our lives as a family. I miss her hugs.”
He told the BBC: “She was a unique character, always seeing the sunny side of life.
“She had a wicked sense of humour and always laughed at my bad jokes.”
Warwick said Samantha was his “most trusted confidant and an ardent supporter of everything I did in my career”.
Annabelle and Harrison added: “Mum is our best friend and we’re honoured to have received a love like hers.
“Her love and happiness carried us through our whole lives.”
Warwick and Samantha met when she was an extra on the set of his film Willow in 1988.
The couple tied the knot in June 1991.
Warwick previously opened up about almost losing Samantha to sepsis – calling it the “longest hours of his life”.
Samantha’s struggles
- Samantha and Warwick lost their baby Lloyd just nine days after he was born in 1991 after inheriting dwarfism from both his parents caused complications.
- The couple lost a second child when Samantha miscarried at 20 weeks in 1993, with the couple naming the baby George.
- Samantha suffered another two miscarriages before giving birth to Annabelle and Harrison.
- The actress underwent numerous surgeries in her lifetime due to her achondroplasia, a bone growth disorder that causes disproportionate dwarfism.
- In 2019, she was raced to hospital after complications following decompression surgery on her spine.
- Samantha had contracted life-threatening sepsis and Warwick was preparing himself to say ‘goodbye’.
- The infection causes the body’s immune system to go into overdrive and attack tissues and organs, which can be lethal and lead to amputations.
- Sam survived but had it not been for her medical team acting so quickly, she could have lost fingers, toes or limbs.
- After being discharged, Warwick ‘played doctor’ for three months – mixing vials of antibiotics, loading them into syringes and carefully feeding them into Sam’s heart through a drip.
- In March 2024, it was announced Samantha had sadly passed away.
The actor told The Sun that her health dramatically declined ahead of a family caravan holiday.
Speaking of the horror a few years later, he said: “The next few hours were the longest of my life as I waited on the ward with our children in the empty space left by Sam’s hospital bed.
“I hoped it would not symbolise a future for us without her.”