57 years old actor died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Los Angeles in September while the HBO series Max was in production.
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In the episode, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) finds a note from Stanford stating that he has left for Tokyo.
“I can’t tell you without crying. And you’ve cried enough,” he wrote, referring to Bradshaw’s on-screen husband’s death in the first episode of the show.
As it turns out, Stanford left to manage the career of an aspiring TikTok star.
“In memory of our beloved Willie Garson,” read the on-screen announcement at the end of the episode.
Parker wrote a touching tribute to Garson shortly after his death.
“It was unbearable,” she wrote. “Sometimes silence is a statement. Of gravity. Heartbreak. The magnitude of the loss of a friendship over 30 years.”
