CATRIONA Gray is thankful for the gift of family this holiday season.
The Miss Universe 2018 titlist posted on Instagram that she is feeling particularly grateful to be spending the holidays with her parents, Ian Gray and Normita Magnayon, in Australia.
“It took me a while to think of a caption cause being together with my mum and dad for Christmas this year hits different. It seems I’ve taken time for granted, always talking about ‘next time,’ the ‘next christmas’… like it was guaranteed,” she wrote.
“But earlier this year when my papa was in the hospital, I felt like I had run out of time. So being at home with them, dancing in our chairs to Elvis, giggling over a glass of wine and taking our evening walks… every moment feels like such a gift,” she continued. “Thank you God for my family, for the time I still have with them. This truly is the greatest gift I could’ve ever asked for.”
It was back in April when Catriona’s family went through a scary ordeal after her Australian-Scottish father was hospitalized due to an undisclosed reason.
At the time, the beauty queen said, “It was one of the scariest times, but we’re out of the woods now. My dad is the strongest person I know, my real life hero. Love you papa.”
Meanwhile, aside from her parents, it seems that Catriona is also spending the holidays with her boyfriend Sam Milby in Australia, going by a photo she shared of their picnic date by the beach just a few days before Christmas.
The couple confirmed their relationship in May 2020, over a year after they were first rumored to be an item. (PUSH)
