{"id":32023,"date":"2025-06-18T03:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T03:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularnews.pw\/?page_id=32023"},"modified":"2025-06-18T03:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T03:28:02","slug":"actress-clare-mccann-shares-heartbreaking-farewell-kiss-with-sons-coffin-amid-bullying-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/popularnews.pw\/?page_id=32023","title":{"rendered":"Actress Clare McCann Shares Heartbreaking Farewell Kiss With Son\u2019s Coffin Amid Bullying Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

After months of unrelenting bullying at school, the 13-year-old son of Australian actress Clare McCann took his own life.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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At a heartfelt ceremony held Monday at Waverley\u2019s Mary Immaculate Catholic Church in Sydney\u2019s eastern suburbs, Atreyu McCann was recalled as a creative and kind person.<\/p>\n

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As video of Atreyu performing, singing, and proudly standing next to his mother at red carpet events rolled, friends and relatives crowded the church to watch in quiet.<\/p>\n

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Atreyu had artistic ambitions, just like his mother, a celebrated journalist, director, and actor who starred in the Channel V series Blog Party.<\/p>\n

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He starred in the US documentary series Deadly Women and Benefited, which his mother wrote and directed, and received two drama prizes during his brief career.<\/p>\n

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As Ms. McCann walked up to the pulpit, friends and family wiped away their tears. She took a long, tremulous breath before telling them about her lost\u00a0\u201cbest friend.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cYou were the most intelligent, funniest and talented person I\u2019ve ever known,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0she said as her voice struggled to contain her emotion.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen you were little, you told me you came to my window when I was little [and] you picked me as your mummy and then you said you would leave me one day.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThat you would always love me. I will always love you, I will always miss you, and I will fight for your justice and I will make you proud.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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After two months of being harassed, abused, and threatened by classmates starting in his first week of high school, Atreyu passed away in their Sydney home, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey tried to dim his light,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0the family said. One often told him,\u00a0\u201cYou\u2019re not him,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0any time he tried to speak and be funny.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe became withdrawn and moody and refused to return to school.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The mourners wept as Ms. McCann looked down at her son\u2019s coffin filled with flowers and made a sincere apology.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m sorry if I failed you. I\u2019m sorry if I loved you too much, made you too gentle,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0she said.<\/p>\n

After leading the congregation in prayer, parish priest Father Bernie Thomas went up to Ms. McCann and told her she had nothing to apologise for.<\/p>\n

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Father Thomas recalled Atreyu as a kind, pious person whose TikTok profile read,\u00a0\u201cGod First.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ms. McCann led her son\u2019s casket out into the bright, late-morning light to the symphony of bagpipes just as she had entered the church.<\/p>\n

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As his casket was lifted into the hearse once more in front of a framed picture of her kid with unusually short hair, friends and family looked on.<\/p>\n

As she shared her final, emotional words in private, she kissed his picture repeatedly.<\/p>\n

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