Michelle Pfeiffer has paid tribute to his former co -star and friend Val Kilmer after his death at the age of 65.
The actor, who jumped to fame in the 1980s with papers in films such as ‘Top Gun’, ‘Batman Forever’ and ‘The Doors’, died from complications related to pneumonia after a long battle with health problems, with his death announced by his daughter Mercedes on Tuesday. (02.04.25)
His death caused an avalanche of tributes of the greats of Hollywood, and now Michelle Pfeiffer, 66, has added them to share a black and white photograph of herself and goes; Of the 1985 Special ABC ABC Special ‘One Dooos’.
Next to the image, she wrote: “Rest in peace, Val.”
The two actors met for the first time while filming the special, which approached the dangers of the teenage drink, and formed a close friendship that lasted decades.
Val openly spoke about his link with Pfeiffer in his 2020 memoirs, ‘I’m your Huckleberry’. He described the connection they shared, saying: “The secret pain that Michelle and I shared created an intimacy between us.”
He revealed that he had felt comfortable with her about her tense relationship with her parents, while Michelle, in turn, told her about the difficulties in her marriage to Peter Horton, whom she later divorced.
Although Val wrote with love about Michelle, he admitted to having housed a long -standing attraction for his younger sister, Lori Pfeiffer, now 59 years old.
He said in his memoirs: “He was in love with his younger sister Lori, who didn’t seem to correspond, even a little,” he wrote. “In fact, she seemed not to know what existed.”
While the speculation has persisted on whether Michelle and Val ever left, the details are still clear. However, Val reflected on his time together in a 2018 Instagram post, sharing the same image as Michelle then used in his tribute.
He said online: “I met Michelle through her husband Peter and Mare Winningham, who was my first girlfriend in high school.
“It was surprising working with the three talented people in a ‘special school’ after school ‘that was, for my memory, always a morality game designed to educate children just home from school.”
Val, whom he was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2015, spent the last years of his life largely off the public eye, although he made a widely praised return to the screen in 2022, repeating his role as Iceman in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’.
Michelle has not publicly commented on Val beyond its Instagram publication.
Together with Mercedes, Val is survived by his son Jack, whom he had during his marriage to actress Joanne Whalley.
