A Touching Story from Deadpool

**WARNING – TEAR-JERKER ALERT**

Be ready to be overcome with “the feels…”

When the world’s biggest “Deadpool” fan died from cancer after a three-year battle last week, Ryan Reynolds lost a close friend.

Reynolds paid tribute to fellow Canadian Connor McGrath, 13, with a touching Facebook post about their friendship and the “smart” and “funny” teenager, whom Reynolds met through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

“Connor was a great friend, a great son, and a light to the people lucky enough to know him,” Reynolds wrote. “I’m grateful I got to orbit Connor’s world for a brief time. Grateful for the pages and pages of hilarious texts between us. Grateful to his parents for allowing Connor to spend time with a foul-mouthed child in the body of a 39-year-old.”

The boy from Newfoundland was the first person to ever see the blockbuster “Deadpool” movie. Working with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Reynolds visited him at Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton, Canada, and showed him a rough cut of the film long before it was released in theaters.

Here’s Reynolds talking about it on the Ellen Degeneres Show.