Lance Reddick spoke about Michael Okay. Williams in the future earlier than personal dying

Lance Reddick made eerie feedback about his late “The Wire” co-star, Michael Okay. Williams, simply in the future earlier than his personal sudden passing.

Reddick was discovered useless of “pure causes” in his Studio City, Calif., dwelling on Friday, based on his reps. He was 60.

Meanwhile, Williams was 54 when he suffered a deadly overdose in his New York City penthouse in September 2021.

“I simply couldn’t consider it. I imply, I knew after we had been on ‘The Wire’ that he struggled with [addiction]. And I solely knew it as a result of he informed me,” Reddick shared with Radio Andy’s Bevy Smith on Thursday.

“But fairly frankly, Michael and I didn’t keep in contact,” he continued. “So due to the trajectory of his profession, it by no means occurred to me that that was nonetheless occurring.”

Reddick stated “the final time” he noticed Williams was in February 2020 on the American Black Film Festival, the place their Baltimore-based HBO sequence — which ran from 2002 to 2008 — gained the award for Best Classic TV Show.

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“Except for the grey and the white in his beard, I imply, he nonetheless seemed like he was 30 years outdated,” the “John Wick” star informed host Smith, including that he recalled considering to himself, “‘What is that this man consuming? Because I need a few of that.’

“So the notion that he was battling medicine and that he died instantly and that he died that means was simply surprising to me.”

Despite the truth that the actors “didn’t work collectively fairly often,” Reddick stated he and Williams “spoke sufficient occasions” for him to know that he “was simply such a real man.”

“And right here’s one other factor,” he famous, “once I felt like I used to be floundering in my profession shortly after ‘The Wire,’ I known as him, and he helped me. And you don’t neglect that.”

Reddick is survived by his second spouse, Stephanie, and two kids he shared together with his late first spouse, Suzanne: a daughter named Yvonne and a son named Christopher.