‘Tell Me Lies’ Star Jackson White Mourns Death of Dad Jack: ‘This Guy Taught Me Everything’

Jackson White, the 28-year-old son of actress Katey Sagal and actor and musician Jack White, mourned the death of his father on social media on Tuesday.

“This guy taught me everything,” Jackson captioned an Instagram slideshow that included photos of him and his father and videos of the drummer’s musical performances. “We had ups and downs, as a man has with their father. But in the end it was just love.”

“He was an open book, a fighter, genuinely the funniest person my sister and I knew, and single handedly invented the loudest most powerful back beat of any drummer I’ve ever seen. He’s not in pain anymore. And we get to remember him, 6 foot 4 with a denim shirt and a Starbucks muffin, driving us around, teaching us every important song ever written,” Jackson continued. “I’m wearing his shoes every day. Not a metaphor he had really cool shoes. Big Jack White. 1954-2024. I love you dad forever.”

Katey replied to her son’s post with a sweet caption about her ex and his relationship with Jackson and their daughter, Sarah. 

“Beautiful Jackson and Beautiful Sarah I will always be grateful to your dad for you!” she wrote. “Thank you Jack❤️🙏. Finally free.”

Katey was married to Jack White from 1993-2000, during part of her time on the beloved sitcom Married… with Children. The couple welcomed Sarah in 1994 and Jackson in 1996, following the death of a stillborn daughter. She went on to marry Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter in 2004, and the couple shares a daughter, Esme, born in 2007.

Last year, Katey penned a special message to all three of her children on Instagram, sharing family photos and writing, “My gifts, my best part, my deep stretches, my expanding heart, All of you❤️ are my happy Mother’s Day. @jacksonwhite @sarahgracewhite_ @sutterink #esmelouise.”

Jackson recently starred as his mother’s son in Tell Me Lies, a Hulu drama, which was renewed for a second season in November 2022.

In an interview with the Seattle Times in 2022, Jackson described the casting as “insane,” but “perfect.”

“I’m friends with my mother, and we had to be extremely passive aggressive and tense,” he said of filming the series together, “but it was so fun and exciting to build that relationship and talk to each other how we’ve never really talked to each other.”

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