Whether you know him from the James Bond or “Mamma Mia!”
movies, Pierce Brosnan is beloved by audiences the world over.
Charlotte, a mother of two, passed away from ovarian cancer.
Even sadder, she had just married her longtime partner Alex mere weeks before her death.
She left behindBrosnan’s beloved grandchildren, Isabella and Lucas.
Unfortunately, she was also the first in the family to suffer fromsymptoms of ovarian cancer.
Brosnan and Harris met in the late 1970s and later married in December 1980.
Pierce adopted her children as his own after Harris passed away in 1986.
Together, they had a son named Sean in 1983.
Harris was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1987.
Four years later, it took her life.
Brosnan couldn’t possibly have known his daughter would face the same cruel fate from the same cruel disease.
News) in a moving tribute at a Stand Up to Cancer event years later.
As we know, the heartbreak would not end there for the Brosnan family.
After Cassandra’s death, Chris struggled to cope, eventually spiraling into drug and alcohol abuse.
The addiction led to multiple arrests and even a near-fatal overdose, leaving Pierce powerless to help his son.
Despite Pierce’s best efforts as a devoted father, Chris continued down a destructive path.
Ultimately, Brosnan made the painful decision to cut Chris off when he refused to get clean.
At the time of writing, the two had not yet reconciled after 19 years.
He knows how to get out.
He doesn’t want to.
… You never completely cut them off, but I have cut Christopher off.
I had to say, ‘Go.
Get busy living, or get busy dying.'"
