The Superman actor is survived by kids Matthew, Alexandra, and Will, who is a correspondent for Good Morning America
Christopher Reeve’s children are recalling the painful details of their dad’s life-changing 1995 accident.
The late Superman actor was left paralyzed and ventilator-dependent in 1995 after suffering from a fall during a horseback riding competition, and later died of heart failure aged 52 in 2004.
He is survived by his three children, Matthew, 44, and Alexandra, 40, who he shared with his ex Gae Exton, and Will, 32, who he shared with wife Dana Reeve — who passed away less than two years after her husband’s death — and the three have come together to honor their father with the documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story.
Ahead of the new film’s release in theaters, Matthew, Alexandra and Will stopped by The Kelly Clarkson Show, and opened up about what they remember of their dad’s accident.
Matthew first explained how his dad initially got into horseback riding ten years before his accident, when he learned to ride horses for his role in 1985’s Anna Karenina. “He never really rode horses because he was always allergic, but he used to inject himself with really strong antihistamines everyday and he would go out and film these scenes with the Hungarian national equestrian team,” he explained.