
Sara Gilson’s suicide-murder by the hands of her husband, Jeremiah ‘Shawn’ Duffey, has left everyone in shock. The influencer was only 43 years old when she was found dead in her Oklahoma home on Thursday, July 23, 2026 (ET). Amid that, Sara’s ex-husband, Lyle Landers, has revealed that he had been begging her to leave Shawn.
Sara Gilson’s ex-husband was begging her to leave Shawn Duffey for years
Sara Gilson’s ex-husband Lyle Landers talked to PEOPLE in a candid conversation and revealed that he did not approve of Sara’s relationship with her estranged husband, Jeremiah “Shawn” Duffey. He claimed that “Shawn had been a risk for her since they got together.” For the unversed, he and Sara share two children together; he stated:
“She had been stuck in a relationship where domestic abuse seemed ‘okay’. I had begged her for five years to get away from him. I had offered to help her, in any way I could, to get away from him. But he seemed to have some sort of control over her, and she couldn’t seem to get away.”














