Overview
- On Oct. 11, Gellar shared a throwback Instagram video of herself hugging Trachtenberg, set to Charlie Puth and Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again.”
- Her caption recalled meeting Trachtenberg as a teen and included, “I can’t imagine what 40 would have been like… This I know … it would be filled with love. Happy birthday @michelletrachtenberg.”
- Gellar and Trachtenberg first met on All My Children in the early 1990s and later worked together on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where Trachtenberg played Dawn Summers.
- Trachtenberg was found dead at 39 in her New York City apartment on Feb. 26, and in April officials ruled the cause as complications of diabetes following toxicology review.
- Gellar previously mourned Trachtenberg with a photo carousel and a line from Buffy in an initial tribute shared shortly after her death.