WORCESTER, Mass. – Alicia Witt is finally speaking out after her parents were found dead inside their Massachusetts home by police last month.
She said she hadn’t heard from them in several days and asked a relative to check on them in December.
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A post from Alicia Witt said: “I hadn’t been allowed inside my parents’ home for well over a decade; every time I offered to have something repaired for them, they refused to allow workers into their house. I begged, cried, tried to reason with them, tried to convince them to let me help them move - but every time, they became furious with me, telling me I had no right to tell them how to live their lives and that they had it all under control. it was not for a lack of trying on my part, or the part of other people who loved them.”
There had been reports the couple had been having furnace problems and were using a space heater, police said, but firefighters said there were no signs of carbon monoxide in the home, The Telegram & Gazette reported.
The deaths of Robert Witt, 87, and Diane Witt, 75, were not considered suspicious, police in Worcester said.
“I had no idea that their heat had gone out,” Witt said. “I will never understand how or why they made the choice not to tell me this, not to let me help them with this. My heart is broken.”
There were no obvious signs of trauma, police Lt. Sean Murtha said.
Witt made her acting debut at age 7 in 1984's “Dune” and has also appeared in “Orange Is the New Black,” “Twin Peaks” and “The Walking Dead.”
She is also a classically trained pianist and recording artist whose latest album “The Conduit” was released in the fall.