William Shatner Feels 'Really Awful' He Can't Be At Leonard Nimoy's Funeral

Photo by John M. Heller/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — William Shatner said Saturday he feels “really awful” that he will not be able to attend the funeral for Leonard Nimoy, his friend and co-star on Star Trek.

Nimoy, who played Mr. Spock to Shatner’s Captain Kirk on the long-running TV show and in movies, died Friday at the age of 83.

The actor revealed he was struggling with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 2014, according to the New York Times. Nimoy had been a smoker, which contributed to the ailment, before he gave up the habit years ago.

Shatner tweeted Saturday that he was unable to get back to California in time for the funeral because he was in Florida doing a benefit for the Red Cross.

“I loved him like a brother,” Shatner wrote on Facebook. “We will all miss his humor, his talent, and his capacity to love.”

Though he was best known for playing Spock in Star Trek, Nimoy also worked in the theater, portraying Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, and published poetry and books of photography.



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