Sayinggoodbye is never easy. As Joey Feek continues her ongoing battle with terminalcervical cancer, the ailing country singer has begun to say her farewells. Overthe weekend, Rory Feek wrote in a new blog post that his wife was not ready to say goodbye to herbest friend Julie Zamboldi.
“She was inconsolable,” Rorywrote of his wife on his blog This Life I Live on Saturday.
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Julie had been staying with the Feeksfor a week visiting Joey. However, when it came time for her to returnhome to Oregon, Rory revealed that “Joey’s tears began to fall.”
He continued, “I put my arms aroundher and asked what was wrong. As her lips quivered and she tried to catchher breath, the tears streamed her cheeks and Joey said, ‘I don’t think I willever see her again.’”
In the end, Julie decided to cancel her flight and remain by her best friend's side in Indiana. The couple first met Julie about “seven oreight years ago,” Rory said at the Bib & Buckle Festival. From that momenton Joey and the couple’s “biggest fan” became very close.
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Julie, dubbed Saint Jules by Joey’sfather, is no stranger to losing friends to cancer. In his latest post, Rory revealed that his wife's pal had already lost two of her best girlfriends to the disease. "It had hurt andscarred her,” he penned. “Somehow our music was a part of her healing.”
While the couple’s music might havebeen therapeutic, Julie herself has been godsend to Joey and her family. “Like an angel fromheaven, it was as if God sent Julie to us. To [Joey],” Rory wrote. “Shecooks, she cleans, changes the baby’s diaper, and does any and everything elsethat she can find to do that needs to be done while we’re living here out ofsuitcases… not waiting for someone we love to die. But helping thewoman we all love to live.”
