Jeffrey Dean Morgan of The Walking Dead talks about his wife Hilarie Burton’s cameo

Jeffrey Dean Morgan – and fans – when his wife, Hilarie Burton Morganback The Walking Dead: The Dead City.

On the popular AMC show on Sunday, June 15, Negan (Morgan) hallucinates his dead wife Lucille (Burton Morgan), while trying to help a sick Ginny (Mahina Anne Marie Napoleon). He spent the episode reflecting his past struggles – including the attempt to keep Lucille alive after he was diagnosed with cancer before his suicide death.

Neigen Finally faced the vision His late wife appeared to be a thief at first. Negan apologizes for failing to keep Lucille alive, but she disagrees with him.

She told Negan that he said, “You get me up every morning. You wash me. Lucille’s hallucination continued, “You wear my clothes.” You took off me. ”

Burton Morgan, 42 Originally appeared Lucille as Season 10 finale Walking zombies. The audience learned through flashbacks that it was Negan’s wife who inspired his murdered bat name.

Morgan, 59, told people. “I always wanted her to come back.”

Morgan looked forward on how that moment would push his character forward, adding: “[Showrunner] Ellie [Jorné] I came up with a way to bring her back, and we did it. I think this has a lot to do with my character, so you can see why Negan is behind Negan’s door. ”

The couple Together on the screen Since 2009, she married in October 2019 after welcoming her 14-year-old son Gus and 5-year-old daughter George.

“Jeffrey and I weren’t dating. He was the guy I was going to get older and bored. Instead of spending late nights in clubs or winners and dining, we settled down and watched an episode of “The Lonely Dove,” Burton Morgan reflected on his 2020 memoir in 2020 Rural Diary. “We decided that when we had a child, we took Robert Duvall’s character as his name. As the credits rolled, Jeffrey turned to me and asked, ‘Do you just want to do this? Do you want to try to have a family?’ We know each other for less than a month.”

Burton Morgan has been open before on how Navigate fertility After welcoming Gus to influence their relationship.

“I do have postpartum [depression] And my son. I don’t know I did this because I was in the fog, but I was frustrated after my first miscarriage. Burton Morgan exclusively told US Weekly In May 2020. “I can look at it now and see how much I am self-destructive. … Until you went through the first really scary thing together, you don’t know how your partner will react. You don’t know what they need.”

She added: “I need to cry hard. He has always been very supportive of him. He is very generous with his privacy and can let me put it there. Because it’s not just me, it’s our story. I can’t thank him enough for letting me go through the process this way. … The gifts given to me allow me to put him there and make him a personal bubble.