Post by artemis on Feb 8, 2012 6:00:32 GMT -5
"'He must have had a good reason for doing what he did': Daisy Duke actress Catherine Bach opens up about husband's suicide
Dukes of Hazzard star Catherine Bach has opened up about her husband’s death, nearly two years after he committed suicide.
The 57-year-old, who played Daisy Duke in the Eighties TV show, has talked about the devastating loss of Peter Lopez who shot himself in the head in April 2010.
In a shocking revelation the actress says police originally thought she was the victim after they realised a gun had gone off on her San Fernando, California property.
Bach tells Entertainment Tonight: ‘There was somebody that was stalking me at that point and the police thought that this person had found me and that the gunshot that went off was for me, not for Peter.
‘So it was completely shocking and nobody understood what had happened, especially not me because we were very happy.’
Bach insists there were no signs that her husband of 19 years was depressed or that he planned to take his own life.
‘He was very happy with his family and very proud of his girls,’ the mother-of-two says.
‘We had a deep love…We were together. We were very happy for 19 years.’
Bach says that other people who saw her husband in the days before he died cannot believe that he was suicidal.
She says: ‘That’s what’s so crazy about this. There’s [sic] no signs. Peter didn’t drink, didn’t take drugs.
‘I was just with our dentist…a couple of days ago and she said: “I had just examined Peter a week ago”.
‘That doesn’t happen. Somebody doesn’t get their teeth cleaned when they’re going to do something like that.’
Lopez, 60, was well known in the Hollywood community. The music lawyer’s former clients include Michael Jackson, The Eagles and Michael Buble.
In fact Bach says the family had made plans to dine with singer-songwriter Ken ‘Babyface’ Edmonds that week.
She says: ‘It’s hard stuff because one day we were so happy and everything was great.
‘We were going to have dinner that night. We were having dinner the next night with Babyface and his family.
‘And the next day we were going to church and we were going here and Peter was going to play golf and all of a sudden ca-boo-ey.’
In addition to Bach, Lopez left behind two daughters, Sophia and Laura who were 14 and 11 at the time of their father’s death.
‘I knew Peter a long time,’ she says.
‘We were friends for a long time before we became boyfriend and girlfriend and ultimately getting married.
‘I do know one thing - that he was the most solid guy I’ve ever met. He was the coolest. He was the greatest.
‘He must have had his reasons [to do what he did]. I have to honour that. That’s really all I can do and now it’s up to me to show my daughters how to move on.’
Anger is a common feeling among people whose relatives have committed suicide. But Bach says that is not an emotion she feels.
‘No. I am not that way,’ she tells Entertainment Tonight. ‘I trusted him more than that.
‘Sometimes when life gets tough, of course I’m like: “Really am I dealing with everything all on my own? Really? This was not supposed to be like this…”
‘But I can’t get mad at Peter because I loved him that much and I trusted him that much. He must have had a very good reason for doing what he did.
So I will never get mad at him or blame him or judge him.’
Bach says her daughters are fine, despite their father’s death.
‘They’re good,’ she says. ‘It’s a lot to absorb. It was a huge impact.’
Bach is about to return to US TV by joining the cast of daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless.
She says her character Anita is a ‘bad a**.’
Speaking of the place where the soap is set, Bach says: ‘All I can say is trouble is coming to Genoa City in a big way.’
Dukes of Hazzard star Catherine Bach has opened up about her husband’s death, nearly two years after he committed suicide.
The 57-year-old, who played Daisy Duke in the Eighties TV show, has talked about the devastating loss of Peter Lopez who shot himself in the head in April 2010.
In a shocking revelation the actress says police originally thought she was the victim after they realised a gun had gone off on her San Fernando, California property.
Bach tells Entertainment Tonight: ‘There was somebody that was stalking me at that point and the police thought that this person had found me and that the gunshot that went off was for me, not for Peter.
‘So it was completely shocking and nobody understood what had happened, especially not me because we were very happy.’
Bach insists there were no signs that her husband of 19 years was depressed or that he planned to take his own life.
‘He was very happy with his family and very proud of his girls,’ the mother-of-two says.
‘We had a deep love…We were together. We were very happy for 19 years.’
Bach says that other people who saw her husband in the days before he died cannot believe that he was suicidal.
She says: ‘That’s what’s so crazy about this. There’s [sic] no signs. Peter didn’t drink, didn’t take drugs.
‘I was just with our dentist…a couple of days ago and she said: “I had just examined Peter a week ago”.
‘That doesn’t happen. Somebody doesn’t get their teeth cleaned when they’re going to do something like that.’
Lopez, 60, was well known in the Hollywood community. The music lawyer’s former clients include Michael Jackson, The Eagles and Michael Buble.
In fact Bach says the family had made plans to dine with singer-songwriter Ken ‘Babyface’ Edmonds that week.
She says: ‘It’s hard stuff because one day we were so happy and everything was great.
‘We were going to have dinner that night. We were having dinner the next night with Babyface and his family.
‘And the next day we were going to church and we were going here and Peter was going to play golf and all of a sudden ca-boo-ey.’
In addition to Bach, Lopez left behind two daughters, Sophia and Laura who were 14 and 11 at the time of their father’s death.
‘I knew Peter a long time,’ she says.
‘We were friends for a long time before we became boyfriend and girlfriend and ultimately getting married.
‘I do know one thing - that he was the most solid guy I’ve ever met. He was the coolest. He was the greatest.
‘He must have had his reasons [to do what he did]. I have to honour that. That’s really all I can do and now it’s up to me to show my daughters how to move on.’
Anger is a common feeling among people whose relatives have committed suicide. But Bach says that is not an emotion she feels.
‘No. I am not that way,’ she tells Entertainment Tonight. ‘I trusted him more than that.
‘Sometimes when life gets tough, of course I’m like: “Really am I dealing with everything all on my own? Really? This was not supposed to be like this…”
‘But I can’t get mad at Peter because I loved him that much and I trusted him that much. He must have had a very good reason for doing what he did.
So I will never get mad at him or blame him or judge him.’
Bach says her daughters are fine, despite their father’s death.
‘They’re good,’ she says. ‘It’s a lot to absorb. It was a huge impact.’
Bach is about to return to US TV by joining the cast of daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless.
She says her character Anita is a ‘bad a**.’
Speaking of the place where the soap is set, Bach says: ‘All I can say is trouble is coming to Genoa City in a big way.’