"That was his pridefulness and joy, his babe girl," Paul's younger member Cody Walker exclusively told E! News up of what would person been the actor's 50th day past year. "He loved her to death, helium lone wanted what's champion for her."
Meadow, who Paul shared with ex Rebecca Soteros, was lone 14 erstwhile her dada died and determination was hardly a remembrance of the Fast and Furious franchise prima that didn't notation however overmuch helium adored his kid.
"He loved being a dad," Cody reminisced astatine FuelFest Mid-Atlantic successful Millville, N.J., a halt connected the motorsports tour he co-founded to benefit Reach Out Worldwide, the humanitarian assistance enactment Paul started successful 2010. "He had a batch of guilt for not being capable to ever beryllium there."
Meaning, any misgivings Paul had astir Hollywood stemmed from the information that acting took him distant from his No. 1 role.
"That's wherefore Paul didn't similar the industry," explained Cody, himself a begetter of 3 (including present 18-month-old Paul Barrett "Bear" Walker). "There were radical helium liked, galore of them." But, Cody added, each the traveling that making movies entailed meant Meadow had to share her dad with the world.
Nowadays, however, the exemplary appreciates that the satellite is blessed to articulation her successful honoring her begetter assemblage of work, including the films helium was inevitably astir celebrated for. And she remains connected to him successful her ain peculiar ways.
"I emotion and miss you truthful overmuch each day,” Meadow, who turned 26 connected Nov. 4, captioned a photograph of the 2 of them connected what would person been her father's 51st birthday successful September. "Thank you for everything. My everlastingly guardian angel."
And past determination are the numbers.
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"Four and 7 are my dad's favourite numbers," Meadow, who made her franchise debut with a cameo successful Fast X, shared with E! News Chief Correspondent Keltie Knight at the movie's Rome premiere successful May 2023. "And I curse whenever I'm doubting thing oregon whenever I'm successful an statement with someone, I commencement seeing 4 and 7 everywhere. So I ever cognize that it's him."
Meadow said being surrounded by her Fast family astatine the premiere "brings retired the happiness. For maine this is ace breathtaking and helium would beryllium amazed that this is happening."
She said she was reasoning astir the anticipation of much acting successful her future, but for now, modeling was her absorption and "big passion."
Meadow made her runway debut astatine Paris Fashion Week successful 2021, walking the locomotion for Givenchy, and has fronted campaigns for Tiffany & Co.'s luxury eyewear and Givenchy Beauty.
"She's truthful beauteous and she's doing what she wanted to do," Cody told E! astatine FuelFest. "She's conscionable crushing it. We're ace arrogant of her and Paul would beryllium truthful arrogant of her, too."
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(Originally published Sept. 12, 2023, astatine 12 a.m. PT)