{"id":21251,"date":"2025-11-30T17:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=21251"},"modified":"2025-11-30T17:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:37:09","slug":"paul-walkers-mum-said-he-would-have-stayed-home-on-day-he-died-if-not-for-one-text-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=21251","title":{"rendered":"Paul Walker&#8217;s mum said he would have stayed home on day he died if not for one text message"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Paul Walker&#8217;s mother heartbreakingly revealed the actor only set out in his car on the day he died in a fatal crash because of one text message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fast &amp; Furious star died 12 years ago today at the age of 40 following a fatal accident in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had been travelling home from a charity event alongside racing driver friend Roger Rodas when they were involved in the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walker had been a passenger in Rodas&#8217; car, a Porsche Carrera, which crashed into a lamp post and two trees after Rodas lost control of the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both men were killed within seconds of impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walker&#8217;s death sent shockwaves through the acting world, with the actor&#8217;s life later being memorialised in 2018 documentary I Am Paul Walker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most heartbreaking revelations in the documentary came from Walker&#8217;s mother Cheryl, who revealed that her son had been planning to stay at home on the day of his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Walker&#8217;s mother heartbreakingly revealed the actor only set out in his car on the day he died in a fatal crash because of one text message&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":380,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21253,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21251\/revisions\/21253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}