Judi Evans has delighted "Days of Our Lives" fans for decades in the roles of both Adrienne Kiriakis and Bonnie Lockhart. She's also appeared on other sudsers like "Another World," where she played the role of Paulina Cory, and "Guiding Light," when she appeared as Beth Raines (via Soaps). Throughout the decades, Evans has made viewers laugh and cry as her soap opera characters. However, some real-life heartache spilled over into her personal life when the actor tragically lost her only son, Austin Michael Luciano, when he suddenly died in 2019 at age 23.
Evans and Luciano were seemingly very close and even worked together on "Days of Our Lives" in 2005 when he appeared as a child at Salem University Hospital, per Soap Hub. The mother and son reunited on-screen again in 2019 for the film "I Am Not for Sale: The Fight to End Human Trafficking." Evans appeared to be thrilled and very proud to be working with her son on the project. "My son Austin Michael Luciano was cast as Brent in the film.....can't wait to see him work his magic!!!" she tweeted about the movie.
"He was the center of my life," Evans later told Woman's World of her son's death. "Losing him was devastating — my whole world ended in a single moment."
