Johnny Gaudreau’s widow Meredith admits it’s been ‘really hard’ to watch the hockey season start up again just weeks after her husband’s tragic death.

Gaudreau, an NHL veteran who was poised to enter his third season with the Columbus Blue Jackets in 2024, and his younger brother Matthew were killed after being hit by an alleged drunk driver while out cycling in New Jersey last month.

And Meredith, who already had two children with Johnny and recently revealed she is pregnant with their third, has opened up on how hard it’s been watching NHL preseason games begin three weeks on from the fatal crash.

‘It’s been really hard watching hockey start up and seeing how different my life is now,’ she wrote in a heartbreaking post on Instagram.

The pair lost their lives the night before their sister Katie’s wedding, while both of their partners are currently expecting children.
My whole life was taking care of John and our kids. It’s all I ever wanted.’
Meredith and Johnny tied the knot back in September 2021, before welcoming their first child, daughter Noa, a year later, and son Johnny as recently as six months ago.

In a tearful tribute at his funeral this month, Gaudreau’s wife revealed she is currently nine weeks pregnant with their third baby following his tragic passing.

‘In less than three years of marriage, we have created a family of five,’ she said. ‘It doesn’t even sound possible, but I look at it as the ultimate blessing. How lucky am I to be the mother of John’s three babies, our last one being a blessing and so special despite these difficult circumstances.’

Meredith added that when she shared the news with her husband he was ‘beaming’ and ‘so excited.’

‘I was so nervous, because this was again, a total surprise, but his reaction was just immediately kissing me and hugging me,’ she said.
The soon-to-be mother-of-three was seen holding her daughter and son as she entered St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church for the funeral in Media, Pennsylvania.

Dozens of mourners packed into the church for the service, which took place less than two weeks after the fatal accident. A private viewing was held on Sunday.
The brothers’ widows gave emotional tributes to their husbands, recalling the close bond they shared as siblings and their dedication to family.

‘I still feel like the luckiest girl in the world to be his wife,’ Meredith said. ‘He was and still is my soulmate.’

Matthew’s wife Madeline, who is also pregnant with their first child, recalled how the brothers ‘were attached at the hip.’

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Vice President Kamala Harris laughed Thursday about shooting a potential intruder to her home, despite her record of opposing some self-defense gun laws as racist.

Harris spoke about gun ownership during an appearance with Oprah Winfrey at a political forum Thursday night, confirming that she owned a gun.

“If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot, sorry,” Harris said laughing

‘Yes, yes. I hear that, I hear that,’ Winfrey replied.
Harris made the comment defending the right of gun owners to defend themselves and their property despite previously condemning self defense gun laws as racist.

In 2020, Harris condemned ‘stand your ground’ self defense laws, during an interview with the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety.

She argued that those laws were ‘used as an excuse if not a cover for people who are motivated by racism and racial profiling.’

‘It has been used as an excuse to kill black and brown people,’ she added.
Self defense laws exist in 28 states, allowing a person to defend themselves and their property using deadly force without a requirement to retreat from an attacker first, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Some states have specifically included the words ‘stand your ground’ to their laws to make it more clear.

But Harris described such laws as dangerous for minority communities as gun owners were using them as ‘a shield for their misbehavior, and frankly their racism.’

Even as Vice President, Harris stated her willingness to end ‘stand your ground’ laws during an interview with Telemundo.

When the news anchor spoke about a story of a man who was shot after he knocked on the wrong door, Harris lamented that such laws were wrong and needed to be changed.
‘I think there has to be,’ she said. ‘We need to pass reasonable gun safety laws in this country. Babies are dying. Babies.’

She denounced state and local lawmakers defending self-defense laws as cowards.

‘Stand. You want to talk about stand? Stand for principles, stand for the safety of our children. Stand for what’s reasonable,’ she said.

A Harris spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com.

Harris has long supported tougher gun control legislation, including a government sponsored mandatory gun buyback program for assault weapons.

Since taking over the 2024 presidential nomination from President Joe Biden, however, Harris has told voters that she will not take away their guns.

‘I’m not trying to take everyone’s guns away,’ Harris said during the forum.

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A disturbing video captured the moment an Argentine soccer legend allegedly assaulted his estranged wife as one of their two sons looked on in horror.

Leaked surveillance footage, which was leaked on Thursday, seemingly showed Nestor Ortigoza, 39, charging at Lucia Cassiau, 35, and smacking a cell phone of her hand at their home in Ezeiza, a city outside Buenos Aires.

A video taken by Cassiau’s phone also shows him hitting the phone before falling to the ground.

As the surveillance video goes on, Ortigoza then appeared to strike her face and pushed her into a wall.

Ortigoza then berated her shortly before she walked over to her son and hugged him.
Both appeared before the Ezeiza prosecutor’s office and pressed charges against each other.

The prosecutor’s office is investigating the former footballer for domestic violence, while Cassiau is facing allegations of child maltreatment.

A video from another violent incident showed Ortigoza dribbling a soccer ball with one of the couple’s two sons in the backyard of a residence.

It seemed that Cassiau and Ortigoza had been arguing prior to the recording and she tells Ortigoza, ‘Shut up because the child is here.’

Ortigoza responded by kicking a ball that knocked the phone off Cassiau’s hand and hit her in the face.

A source with knowledge of the case told online news portal Infobae that the domestic violence incidents took place in 2023.
In light of the videos, the San Lorenzo governing board called on Ortigoza to step down from his board member post.

He was fired as sporting director in August due to issues surrounding the signing of a player.

‘Following the publicly known facts that link him to situations of gender-based violence, the majority ruling bloc of the San Lorenzo Board of Directors decides to demand that (manager) Néstor Ezequiel Ortigoza resign from his position, since his actions do not represent the values ​​that our institution upholds,’ the team said in a statement.

Ortigoza, a native of San Antonio de Padua, a town in the Buenos Aires province, was a member of Paraguay’s national team that appeared at the 2010 World Cup.

He carved out a stellar career in the Argentine soccer league, spending two stints with San Lorenzo.

He led the club to their first-ever Copa Libertadores title in 2014, scoring the game-winning goal in the final.

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