Jenji Kohan, the creator of Weeds and Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black was hit with tragic news yesterday after her 20-year-old son Charlie died while skiing in Park City, Utah. Charlie was on the trip with his father, Christopher Noxon, and two siblings when he fell and was airlifted to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. The exact cause for his sudden death has yet to be revealed. 

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“Charlie was brilliant, kind, funny, sensitive and loving,” his father said. “He was keenly interested in and deeply curious about the world around him from the time he was a small child. People describe people as brilliant — but Charlie was truly brilliant.”

Charlie’s mother Jenji has now posted a short note on the passing of her son on Instagram next to a couple of lovely images. “He was my best work. A list of adjectives don’t do him justice. There is no justice. I am the luckiest person who ever lived in that I got to spend so much time and help grow this brilliant, funny, truly kind and thoughtful person-man-boy,” she wrote. “My baby. My golden child. My beautiful boy. I don’t understand what life is now without him in the world. I don’t understand where he’s gone. And I’m broken. How is this real?”

Prayers go out to Jenji Kohan and her family as the creator of Orange Is The New Black and Weeds is mourning the loss of her 20-year-old son, Charlie Noxon. Charlie was in Park City, Utah on New Year’s Eve with his father, Christopher Noxon, and two siblings when he had an accident on a slope and fell, TMZ reports. 

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It was apparent that Charlie needed help and a helicopter took him to a nearby hospital. “After further emergency care and evaluation” Charlie was pronounced dead. Aside from Charlie’s fall on the slopes there’s been no more information regarding the reason for his death. 

“Charlie was brilliant, kind, funny, sensitive and loving,” his father, Christopher, told CNN. “He was keenly interested in and deeply curious about the world around him from the time he was a small child. People describe people as brilliant — but Charlie was truly brilliant.”

“We will miss his sweet smile, piercing questions, and big heart. We already do.”

Charlie once starred in an episode of Weeds in 2008. Recent Instagram shares by Jenji show that she moved her son into his dorm at University just this past September.