{"id":2408049,"date":"2026-05-08T18:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2408049"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:02:42","slug":"the-wire-actor-james-ransones-wife-gives-family-update-after-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-wire-actor-james-ransones-wife-gives-family-update-after-his-death\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Wire&#8217; actor James Ransone&#8217;s wife gives family update after his death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe Wire\u201d actor James Ransone\u2019s widow, Jamie McPhee, opened up about single parenting five months after <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/21\/entertainment\/the-wire-actor-james-ransone-dies-by-suicide-at-46\/\">her husband\u2019s death<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>McPhee <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DX9pJc9jhFI\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared an Instagram post <\/a>Tuesday for her son Jack\u2019s 7th birthday and thanked her family and friends for helping raise her and Ransone\u2019s two children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaby king Jack is 7 today. \ud83d\ude2d I can\u2019t believe it,\u201d  McPhee began her tribute to her son, which included photos of the family of four.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>James Ransone\u2019s widow, Jamie McPhee, opened up about single parenting in her Instagram tribute to son Jack on his 7th birthday (McPhee and Jack are pictured above). <span class=\"credit\">jamie mcphee\/ instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>McPhee thanked her family and friends for helping her raise her two children (Ransone is seen above with his two children). <span class=\"credit\">jamie mcphee\/ instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>McPhee wrote, \u201cTo all of our friends and family \u2013 it takes a village indeed. We love everyone so much\u201d (Ransone is pictured above with son Jack). <span class=\"credit\">jamie mcphee\/ instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>She called Jack \u201cthe most handsome, stubborn, funny, affectionate, strong boy,\u201d adding, \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t want it any other way. Love you to the moon and back!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McPee continued, \u201cAnd to all of our friends and family \u2013 it takes a village indeed. We love everyone so much. Thank you for all your support, love, kindness, food, tears, and laughs these last 5 months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the end of her post, McPhee said she \u201ccan finally see that every day is a gift\u201d after losing her husband.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo on this one we celebrate Jack together,\u201d she added. \u201cThank you thank you thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>McPhee (seen above with Ransone and their kids) said that she \u201ccan finally see that every day is a gift\u201d after losing her husband. <span class=\"credit\">GoFundMe<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>McPhee shared multiple pictures of Jack (seen above) in the sweet tribute. <span class=\"credit\">jamie mcphee\/ instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Along with Jack (pictured above), Ransone and McPhee have a daughter, Violet. <span class=\"credit\">jamie mcphee\/ instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ransone married McPhee in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cIt Chapter Two\u201d actor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/08\/entertainment\/the-wire-star-james-ransones-cause-of-death-revealed\/\">died by suicide<\/a> in December in Los Angeles. He was 46.<\/p>\n<p>McPhee <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/22\/entertainment\/james-ransones-widow-breaks-silence-following-the-actors-suicide\/\">shared a heartbreaking tribute to her spouse<\/a> after his death, thanking him for giving her \u201cthe greatest gifts\u201d: their two children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are forever,\u201d McPhee added. \u201cI told you I have loved you 1000 times before and I know I will love you again.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Ransone (seen above with his family) died by suicide in December 2025 at age 46. <span class=\"credit\">jaime mcphee\/ instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>McPhee and Ransone (pictured above with their two kids) got married in 2017. <span class=\"credit\">jaime mcphee\/ instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/supporting-jamie-jack-and-violet-after-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A GoFundMe page<\/a>\u00a0was created after Ransone\u2019s death to help McPhee and her kids \u201cnavigate life after an unimaginable loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fundraiser has raised over $251,000 as of Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Ransone opened up about his struggle with addiction in 2016, telling <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/film\/james-ransone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Interview Magazine<\/a> that he got sober at age 27 \u201cafter being on heroin for five years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Wire\u201d actor James Ransone\u2019s widow, Jamie McPhee, opened up about single parenting five months after her husband\u2019s death. McPhee shared an Instagram post Tuesday for her son Jack\u2019s 7th birthday and thanked her family and friends for helping raise her and Ransone\u2019s two children. \u201cBaby king Jack is 7 today. \ud83d\ude2d I can\u2019t believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2408050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24188,22062,70626,24003,426383],"class_list":["post-2408049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-couples","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-families","tag-celebrity-news","tag-the-wire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Wire-actor-James-Ransones-wife-gives-family-update-after.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408051,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408049\/revisions\/2408051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2408050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}