Christopher Lloyd Pens Emotional Tribute To Late Wife, The OG Harley Quinn, Arleen Sorkin

Days Of Our Lives and Batman star Arleen Sorkin died at 67 on August 24 following complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis. To honor her passing, her husband of almost three decades, Christopher Lloyd, composed a heartfelt tribute featured in the pages of Variety magazine to celebrate the legacy of his late wife.

The Modern Family co-creator shared that Arleen extended kindness to him during their first meetings, which eventually drew him to her. “Arleen’s charitable streak had been known to me since literally the day we met as staff writers on a sitcom,” Lloyd wrote. “At lunch, she approached me. ‘My name is Arleen, and I’m an empath. I hear a clicking in your jaw that may be TMJ. Here is the number of a dentist who can help.'”

Christopher Lloyd says he and his late wife, Arleen Sorkin, “clicked” because of her “big heart”

The 84-year-old stated that it was surprising that even though she was famous at the time, the late actress was concerned with the welfare of people around her.

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“But that first day, I was equal parts enchanted and mystified,” he admitted. “She’d already been the center square on The Hollywood Squares. Why was she worrying about a stranger’s TMJ? I came to learn that she worried about everyone.”

She remained dedicated to helping people despite her health struggles

The actor revealed that when his late wife was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, he could not wrap his head around why such calamity should befall a good person. “I don’t know by what celestial accounting fate had decided to reserve the worst possible disease for one who, upon hearing that our boys’ tap dance teacher had been shot, got him urgent medical care, away from danger, and a place to recuperate for two months (he lived to tap again, and called her every day on Mother’s Day),” Lloyd lamented.

He further explained that regardless of the challenges she faced, her unwavering enthusiasm for life, extraordinary love for humanity, and belief in the goodness of people remained steadfast. “One of the final times I sat with her at that dining table was for brunch last Father’s Day, during which, rest assured, an Uber driver who’d recently taken her to a medical appointment was making his calypso singing debut as our accompaniment,” Lloyd wrote. “By this time, the disease she’d already fought for a dozen years had taken much of her strength.”