Hope from her tragedy
‘King’ actress pregnant again
The Broadway actress who lost her daughter and an unborn child when a car slammed into her on a Brooklyn street in 2018 is expecting a baby in the coming weeks.
Ruthie Ann Miles, a Tony winner who is now a regular on the CBS series “All Rise,” shared the happy news on Instagram.
“Thank you especially to the many of you who supported us in the aftermath of the crash, continually lifted us up in prayer, doused us with Love, encouraged us, let us be & grieve these two years ... and now rejoice with us in this new life,” the post said.
The post said her daughter Abigail and her unborn child, Sophia, “would have loved being big sisters & are loving watching their family grow.”
Miles’ husband is Jonathan Blumenstein, an economist.
Miles (inset) and a friend, Lauren Lew, were crossing 9th St. at Fifth
Ave. in Park Slope with their young children on March 5, 2018, when motorist Dorothy Bruns blew through a red light and mowed them down.
Miles’ daughter Abigail, 4, and Lew’s son Joshua, 1, died in the wreck.
Bruns, 44, was behind the wheel despite doctors’ warnings that her history of seizures made her a deadly risk on the road.
She was accused of manslaughter and several other charges in the crash, and ended up taking her own life by a drug overdose in November 2018. “I’m sorry, I can’t do this any more,” Bruns wrote in a suicide note.
Miles, 36, who won the Tony award for featured actress in a musical for her role in a 2015 Broadway revival of “The King and I,” in 2015, went back to work months after the crash when the show moved to London.
On “All Rise,” she plays Sherri Kansky, an assistant to a newly-appointed Los Angeles County judge. The show premiered in September.