Soleil Moon Frye is remembering Loopy City frontman Shifty Shellshock after his untimely death. The 47-year-old Punky Brewster star took to Instagram over the weekend to share a tribute to her late ex-boyfriend.Â
Posting a sequence of candy, smiling images with the singer, whose actual title was Seth Brooks Binzer, Frye shared a touching caption, revealing that she and Shellshock have recognized one another since they have been youngsters.
“My coronary heart is whispering one million I like you’s for the best way you really liked my kids and I so unconditionally,” Frye started her publish. “I can nonetheless see your smiling candy face in center faculty while you kissed me in your tunnel of affection and the best way you swept me away once more as we grew as much as present me what that timeless type of love appears like.”
She went on to put in writing, “No phrases might ever specific the love we shared or how we’re feeling proper now. It’s a language all its personal. So for now I’ll use each little bit of power you confirmed me to carry on to these phrases you requested me in your stunning morning gravilly voice on the seaside whereas overlaying me with kisses.”Â
Saying she believes she’s going to see Shellshock once more in the future, Frye concluded her publish, writing, “I like you without end and at all times. Your Moonfire xx.”
Frye was beforehand married to Jason Goldberg from 1998 to 2022, and the exes share daughters Poet, 18, and Jagger, 16, and sons Lyric, 10, and Story, 8.
Frye and Shellshock have been first reported to be courting in late 2021. She final posted a photograph with Shellshock in April 2022. It is unclear when the 2 cut up. In November 2022, Frye informed ET that she was specializing in herself.Â
“I am courting myself. It is superior,” she told ET at the time. “This is what I have been doing recently, which is basically stunning. I’ve been taking myself on dates and doing self-love. That has been actually the place I have been at, which is superb.”
Shellshock died final week on the age of 49.Â
In response to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s website, the singer handed away at his residence on Monday. The reason for demise has not been disclosed. Â
Shellshock’s household released a statement to The Sun over the weekend, saying, “Seth struggled with habit all through his life, he did so on a really public platform which was notably difficult. God is aware of he tried so onerous to beat his demons however sadly he misplaced his battle. Our hearts are shattered by his loss. Seth’s larger-than-life presence touched so many. Seth was a troubled soul however he was a stupendous one and he had a coronary heart of gold.”
Shellshock and Loopy City gained fame for his or her chart-topping hit, “Butterfly,” which soared to the highest of the Billboard Sizzling 100 in 2001 and have become an anthem of the early 2000s.
Loopy City fashioned in Los Angeles in 1995 and rapidly gained a following with their mix of rock, hip-hop, and digital music. “Butterfly,” a observe from their debut album, The Present of Recreation, grew to become a breakout hit, and was featured within the 2002 movie, Orange County, starring Jack Black and Colin Hanks.
Regardless of their preliminary success, Loopy City confronted challenges, together with lineup modifications and Shellshock’s struggles with substance abuse. The band launched a number of extra albums, however none achieved the identical success as their debut. In 2008, Shellshock appeared on Celeb Rehab With Dr. Drew, the place he overtly mentioned his battle with medication.
The musician is survived by his three sons, Halo, Gage and Phoenix.
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