Roy Halladay's wife once fought against her husband's wishes of purchasing an aircraft that led to his untimely demise

Former MLB star Roy Halladay died in a plane crash in 2017. Roy's wife Brandy was never in favor of him buying a plane and she had expressed the same one month before Halladay's death.

In a since-deleted YouTube video that ICON Aircraft published, Brandy was open about her early concerns and said:

“I didn’t grow up the way Roy did,” she said. “I didn’t grow up with airplanes or a comfort level the way he did with small planes."

"She fought me the whole way,” Roy Halladay said.

“Hard,” Brandy added. “I fought hard. I was very against it.”

Halladay was always at ease around planes, as Brandy disclosed at the time.

Roy Halladay's immeasurable love for planes

Roy spent a lot of time with planes because his father was a commercial pilot.

Brandy also claimed that despite her initial reservations, she went to the training facility in St. Petersburg, Florida, with her husband to see what all the fuss was about.

“They said, ‘Oh, you want to go up for a ride?’ And I went up to that plane and I looked over [at him] and I said, ‘I get it, I get it,'” Brandy said. “You forget you’re in a plane.”

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Brandy and Halladay were friends when they were little in Colorado. When Brandy's family moved, they lost contact during their time in high school. However, they reconnected once she returned in 1996 and got hitched two years later.

Halladay's number 32 was posthumously retired by the Toronto Blue Jays organization on March 29, 2018, and his number 34 was retired by the Philadelphia Phillies on August 8, 2021.

On January 22, 2019, Halladay was revealed as the newest member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He was the first player to be inducted posthumously since Deacon White in 2013 and the first player to be chosen by the BBWAA since Roberto Clemente in 1973.