Kathy Najimy Instagram – Heart Heavy  I loved Kirstie Alley.  We first met in a van on the way to shoot an all woman film in the desert.   She was one of the most beautiful beings I had ever seen. And hilarious.  And the desert was hot and dirty. And I was pregnant.  And she had no filters and made me laugh.. And that began our relationship. We acted together for 3 years  on the series Veronica’s Closet. And many fun kirstie-ish projects, and wild birthday performances and picking her kids up and Christmas and cake decorating contests and all of it.  Kirstie was first and foremost: FUN.   We’ve seen “Hollywood types” try to be eccentric- but they’ll  never match the true original, authentic, eccentric that is Kirstie.  She had pet Lemurs in her basement. She had freezers full of Jenny Craig, She built arbors covered in flowers inside her living room for dinners.  Once we were in the middle of filming an episode of Veronica’s Closet — she grabbed me and said “A-ee, LET’S GO!” yeah, she called me “A-ee”, that’s  a longer story)   Her driver took us to the valley and we Christmas shopped until the first AD found us amongst the tinsel. Acting with her was some kind of free flowing dream. Nothing was off limits.  She was a brilliant actor. We went head to head about politics, religion, feminism,  (I think it’s hilarious she thought my “quest to get our set at NBC to recycle” was so  Liberal!)  Kirstie delightfully dedicated her life and love to her kids: Lillie and True.  Wild trips, egg hunts, crazy waterfall games in the pool. Nothing was ordinary, nothing was mellow. EVERYTHING WAS FUN AND IGNITING AND ECCENTRIC. Kirstie was all of those things. Hilarious, talented beyond belief, and generous and loyal.  When we acted, it was a wild wash of fun. Pretty much everything she did was a wild wash of fun. My heart to True and Lillie and their families.   Ir-ee. I regret I haven’t said I love you in the past year. I love you.