Hallmark Star Noel Johansen’s Wife Jen Darbellay Killed in Vancouver Filipino Festival Car Attack

Noel Johansen’s family is mourning a tragic loss.

The Hallmark star shared that his wife Jen Darbellay was among the 11 killed after a man drove an SUV through the Lapu-Lapu Filipino festival in Vancouver April 26. She was 50. 

“It hit us before we knew,” Johansen told The Associated Press in an interview published April 29. “I was falling in slow motion, trying to save my head from smashing in the pavement. It’s like a giant tidal wave.”

The Harvest Love actor and their son Ford, 15, and daughter Darby, 7, survived the attack. 

On April 27, Vancouver police confirmed that a suspect, 30-year-old Kai-Ji Adam Lo, has been charged with eight counts of second-degree murder. 

Following the incident, which also left 32 injured, Johansen reflected on the heartbreaking news.

“What you see here is an injury that means nothing to me because what’s inside my heart is broken,” he told reporters at the scene of the crime April 28, per Global News Canada. “Because my wife passed away behind me at the incident.”