John Schneider Took His Late Wife Alicia Allain’s Death Especially Hard

John Schneider was left in a state of mourning following the tragic death of his late wife Alicia Allain. In his first sit-down interview since losing her to breast cancer, the “Dukes of Hazzard” star opened up to People about his grief. “The thing that hurts me the most about it is that she had to endure pain. She had to endure fear. In my overly chivalrous mind, those are the two things I’m supposed to keep her from ever having to experience, and I couldn’t,” he said. 

Still coming to grips with the loss, Schneider said there’s not a day that goes by that he does not think about his late wife. “I miss every damn thing, every day,” he said of the life he once shared with Allain. “I have to get to the point where I look around and see where she is, not where she’s not. And I’m trying to do that, but that’s hard.” 

Schneider has credited his faith in God with helping him cope with the loss of his late wife. During a chat with Fox News Digital, the actor confessed that he might have given up on his life had it not been for his belief that he and Allain would be reunited again in the next one. “Heaven is real. The promise of God that Alicia and I will see each other again forever,” he said. “If it weren’t for that, I think I would have jumped off a bridge.”