Sarah Roberts has marked four years without her late brother Karl with a touching tribute.
Taking to Instagram, the Home and Away star shared a montage of memories created by a fan. Unable to find the words to describe her grief, Sarah shared her fan’s “beautiful words.”
October 23 marks the day Sarah lost her brother.
(Image: Instagram)“Thank you @willex24 for your beautiful words cause I’m lost for mine. 4 years without him today 💔😇” she began before writing the original caption below.
“You will lose someone you can’t live without & your heart will be badly broken & the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss but here is the good news : they live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up & you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly – that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
Her former Home and Away co-stars flooded the comment section with love, including Ada Nicodemou, Rachel Gordon and Jackson Heywood.
Karl sadly passed away in 2019 after a battle with brain cancer.
(Image: Instagram)Sarah had a close relationship with her brother Karl, who sadly passed away in 2019 after a battle with brain cancer.
The 37-year-old described her late brother as her “guardian angel” to our sister site New Idea, recalling the moment he walked her down the aisle for her wedding to James Stewart.
“I’m so grateful we got to share that moment together before he passed,” she told the publication. “I often think about how lucky I was to have a brother as amazing as Karl; he taught me so much and now, even though I would do anything to still have him here with me in person, I feel like I have a guardian angel who is always watching over me and guiding me through life.”
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“I’ll never forget walking down ‘the aisle’ arm in arm with him; it was almost as if the man who had helped shaped me into the woman I had become was walking me towards my future and now when I look back, I get an assured feeling that everything is going to be okay, no matter what, because he led me here.”
Such was the grief that came with losing Karl that, as many struggled with the mental tolls that accompanied the pandemic, for Sarah, COVID felt like “a drop in the ocean” in comparison.
“My world had already been rocked and changed forever after losing Karl and it felt like nothing could rip my heart out the way losing my big brother had,” Sarah said.
“Nothing could rip my heart out the way losing my big brother had.”
(Image: Instagram)“Grief is so fickle and takes you by surprise, I think the whole world is grieving for a world we once knew,” she continued.
“We have to be kind to each other and to ourselves, everything is changing and I think we’re all coming to terms with a new way of living.
“The beauty I believe, when we’re ready, can be found in recognising the way we all put ourselves back together differently than we were before.”
