Former Disney Channel star Tiffany Thornton is speaking out after facing criticism for deciding to remarry less than two year’s after the tragic death of her first husband.
Thornton wed Josiah Capaci Saturday in sweet ceremony on what she described as the “Best day of my life.” On Monday, she shared a wedding photo of herself and her new husband, and shut down her critics in the picture’s caption.
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“This. This is love. That all encompassing, enduring, accepting, near perfect love,” she wrote alongside the picture. “The kind that trumps my need to snap back at people who have the audacity to comment on my Instagram about whether I loved my first husband or not.”
The ceremony came less than two years after Thornton’s first husband, Christopher Carney, was killed in a car crash in Arkansas on Dec. 4, 2015. He was 35. Carney was in a vehicle with his friend, 37-year-old Ezekiel Blanton, when Blanton swerved and hit a tree, KTHV reported then. Blanton also died in the crash.
She and Carney had been married for about four years and shared two sons.
“There is no timeline for grief or for when God moves in your life in undeniable ways,” The 31-year-old Sonny with a Chance alum continued in the post. “There are a lot of people who think it isn’t good to be transparent on social media but I say forget that. I’m going to be open and honest because God wants me to. It’s part of my testimony and it needs to be said.”
Thornton added that she “was a mess” during her wedding on Saturday, writing that she had “so many emotions” that “flooded my heart as I walked down those balcony steps to the arms of my gift from God.”
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News of Carney’s death shocked many, including Evan Ross and Thornton’s co-star Demi Lovato. Now, Thornton says that Carney would have wanted her to find love again.
“I thought of Chris watching us and knowing he would have loved the choice I made, for me and for the boys,” she wrote.
“I thought of Chris’s amazing parents sitting front row and how much of a blessing they have been and will forever be in our lives. How happy they are for the boys and I and how much they already love Josiah. I am so completely humbled by the love I receive from this man.”
The actress explained that her love for her new husband in no way diminishes the love she felt for Carney despite people commenting otherwise.
“How dare any one of you judge me and say that on a social platform. It doesn’t make you any better of a person to cast judgment on others and sit in the seat of mockers,” she wrote, adding, “I will always love chris and jo knows that. And I will always love Jo.”
