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Bevin Prince says late husband joked about lightning strike before death

Bevin Prince recalls an eerie moment her late husband William Friend experienced just before he was struck by lightning two months ago.

“Right before it hit him, he lit a cigar and he looked at my father and he said, ‘If we get struck by lightning, Mike, this is where I wanna be,'” the “One Tree Hill” alum said on “Good Morning America” Friday.

“And then it happened. I believe it was really his time.”

Prince, 40, explained why she believes there was “divinity” in Friend’s passing.

“He was 33 years old. It was July 3 and I believe the exact time that the lightning struck was 3:13 p.m.,” the actress said.

Friend lit a cigar and joked about being struck by lightning before his July passing.

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Friend lit a cigar and joked about being struck by lightning before his July passing.

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Friend lit a cigar and joked about being struck by lightning before his July passing.

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Friend lit a cigar and joked about being struck by lightning before his July passing.

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“So knowing that all the resources were there to potentially save him, I have to believe that something bigger beyond me was calling him.”

The fitness instructor was on a boat with family and friends in North Carolina on July 3 when they “saw a storm in the distance.”

Since there were “60-some boats out there,” too, and “no urgency” for anyone to get off the water at that time, the group did not move.

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“We’d been there so many times,” Prince, who joined her father on another nearby boat at the time, said. “We were watching it.”

The New York Film Academy grad noted that Friend’s death was “instant,” adding, “[EMS] rushed over to him and … a police boat happened to be coming by, so they moved him over to the police boat quickly, and from what I’ve heard, spent a lot of time and care trying to resuscitate him.”