Valerie Mahaffey, star of “Younger Sheldon,” “Lifeless To Me,” and “Large Sky” amongst different award-winning reveals and films, has died at age 71. “I’ve misplaced the love of my life, and America has misplaced one in all its most lovable actresses. She will probably be missed,” Mahaffey’s husband, Joseph Kell, mentioned in a statment (through Selection), sharing that she had handed away in Los Angeles from most cancers.

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“I do not actually have the phrases to say proper now. most cancers sucks. I will search for you in all of the enjoyable moments of life. i do know that is the place you will be. i do know we’ll see one another once more sometime. i like you infinity a lot,” her daughter, Alice Richards, wrote in a heartbreaking Instagram put up alongside a stupendous picture of herself as a younger youngster together with her mother.

Mahaffey joined the forged of “Younger Sheldon” in 2017, portraying the character Mrs MacElroy till exiting the present in 2020. Nonetheless, it was removed from her largest high-profile function throughout her profession. Some in all probability greatest keep in mind Mahaffey from the ’90s CBS basic “Northern Publicity.” She received an Emmy for Finest Supporting Actress in 1992 for her portrayal of Eve, the hypochondriac spouse of the compulsive liar and paranoid chef, Adam. Mahaffey’s profession spanned 50 years and included stints on “Seinfeld,” “Determined Housewives,” and “Wings,” along with showing in large display hits equivalent to “Sully,” and “Seabiscuit.”

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Valerie Mahaffey joins the checklist of actors who’ve sadly died in 2025, alongside Roberta Flack, Gene Hackman, Val Kilmer, and George Foreman, amongst others. Not like a few of her contemporaries, the celeb hid her most cancers prognosis from the general public, making the information of her loss of life all of the extra surprising to these exterior of the circle of Mahaffey’s household and shut mates.

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Celebs and followers alike took to social media to share their condolences and pay tribute to the late star. “Valerie Mahaffey was at all times JUST proper it doesn’t matter what she was working in. At all times so memorable, proficient. I am unable to consider she was even 71 as meaning she actually was part of my life watching issues so long as I have been round. Grateful for her good work at all times,” a devotee posted on X, previously Twitter.

“RIP to the expensive, candy, humorous #valeriemahaffey she was a breath of recent air, pleasure and laughs as ‘Eve’ on #northernexposure all of us adored her,” her former co-star Rob Morrow wrote. “A second of silence, please, and one final journey to a psychological hospital after getting dumped by George, then tossing out Jerry’s tax-audit paperwork, with the passing of Valerie “Patrice” Mahaffey,” media critic and editor Jeff Domingues commented, referencing Mahaffey’s portrayal of Patrice, who was fairly presumably the one girls ever to be ditched by George Costanza on “Seinfeld,” a personality famend for being a complete loser in love and total life.

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