Michael Wolfe and Leticia Cline Leticia Cline/Instagram
American Pickers’ Mike Wolfe is feeling the love on his sixtieth birthday.
Wolfe’s girlfriend, Leticia Cline, took to Instagram on Wednesday, November 6, to pay tribute to him, posting two pics of the pair in a automotive with Wolfe within the driver’s seat and Cline passenger-side.
“You’ll perpetually be my best journey and the house my coronary heart will at all times search,” Cline, 46, captioned the submit. “If we measured the sunsets, journeys we’ve taken, live shows we’ve seen, folks’s lives we’ve touched, animals we’ve helped, issues we’ve liked you then’d be older than actuality may comprehend.”
She continued, “A life properly lived will not be measured in years, however as a substitute by how many individuals measure their lives by yours and you’ve got such a good looking life that over flows [sic] with it. I’m simply blissful I get a entrance seat for all of it. Love you babe. Happiest of birthdays.”
Wolfe and Cline sparked a romance in 2021, the identical 12 months that Wolfe’s former spouse, Jodi Catherine Wolfe, filed for divorce after 9 years of marriage, in response to Folks. Jodi’s submitting cited “irreconcilable variations” as the explanation for the break up and famous that the exes had separated in 2020 earlier than deciding to make it official. (They share a 12-year-old daughter, Charlie.)
Wolfe has hosted American Pickers on The Historical past Channel since 2010. Earlier this week, he spoke out about his late costar and pal Frank Fritz’s opioid habit.
“Right here’s the deal,” Wolfe, 60, informed Folks in an interview revealed on Monday, November 4. “I don’t have the suitable to inform his story — solely he does. However I do have, I really feel, the suitable to inform the private story of how myself and so many individuals struggled to navigate what was happening in his life.”
In line with Wolfe, he and Fritz had been each navigating “relationships that had been falling aside” amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which collided with Fritz coping with a again harm and present process surgical procedure.
Wolfe referred to as the break day because of the pandemic and Fritz’s surgical procedure a “excellent storm.” Wolfe added, “He grew to become hooked on opioids, and that’s when every thing modified.”
The duo’s internal circle subsequently had an intervention. A month later, Wolfe mentioned Fritz was constructive about how he was doing — however regardless of Fritz’s suggestion that issues had been OK, Wolfe mentioned his wrestle was noticeable and the community “lastly made the choice” to let him go.
Fritz left the sequence in 2021, and died in September of this 12 months at age 60. His rep informed TMZ in October that Fritz died from the results of a stroke and was in a hospice facility surrounded by associates on the time of his dying. At some point after Fritz’s dying, Wolfe shared the information in a tribute by way of Instagram.
“I’ve recognized Frank for greater than half my life and what you’ve seen on TV has at all times been what I’ve seen, a dreamer who was simply as delicate as he was humorous,” Wolfe wrote. “The identical off digicam as he was on, Frank had a means of reaching the hearts of so many by simply being himself.”
In case you or somebody you understand is combating substance abuse, contact the Substance Abuse and Psychological Well being Companies Administration (SAMHSA) Nationwide Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).
