HGTV breakout star Carmeon Hamilton is hyping up the premiere of her new Discovery+ show, Reno My Rental—which streams on Discovery+ starting today, Saturday, Sept. 18 — while acknowledging the series premiere comes during a “tough time” for her.
Marcus “succumbed to his injuries after being hit by an intoxicated driver,” Carmeon told Instagram followers.
Carmeon announced in August. 29 Instagram post that she updated a week later “to reflect the actual cause of Marcus’s death.”
“To my extended Internet family,” she wrote in the post. “It is with deep sorrow and an eternally broken heart that I tell you that the love of my life, Marcus Hamilton, has passed away. I was alerted by MPD late last night that Marcus succumbed to his injuries after being hit by an intoxicated driver while on his motorcycle yesterday afternoon.”
According to the Memphis Commercial Appeal, police said that Marcus was knocked from his motorcycle after a motorist traveling in the opposite direction turned into Marcus’s path. Marcus, 37, was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency crews.
The other driver was arrested and charged with failure to yield with severe injury/death, driving under the influence of intoxicants/drugs, and public intoxication, the Commercial Appeal reported.
Marcus, a Nike executive, met Carmeon when both were students at the University of Central Arkansas. He asked around for someone to braid his hair.
After they got married, Carmeon started her Nubi Interiors design company. Earlier this year, she won the HGTV show Design Star: Next Gen, and over the summer, she filmed Reno My Rental.
Carmeon had to figure out her and her son’s “next step” after Marcus’s death.
“I’m no stranger to loss, but this loss brings something beyond pain. Something I can’t describe,” Carmeon wrote the Instagram post. “I’m now missing a major part of myself, and that void seems to grow more and more every second.”
She also talked about the couple’s 12-year-old son, Davin. “I can’t bring myself to figure out Davin’s and my next step because there shouldn’t be a need for one,” She explained. “But amid this immense pain came a wave of support from the community of people that we’ve worked so hard to build. They are the only reason I have the strength and ability to put these words in writing.”
She went on: “Thank you all for being one of the best parts of our love story and loudly encouraging us to be the passionately flawed humans we were, living a life well-lived. I only ask for grace and privacy as my family and I navigate this tremendous loss. I love you, peeps.”