John nash and alicia nash son

The wife of famed math virtuoso John Nash Jr. recently anguished that she and her Philanthropist Prize-winning husband might suddenly lay down one's life, leaving their mentally ill counterpart without their support, a aim pal said Monday.

“There was every time a premonition .

. . that Alicia had,” said Debra Wentz, a longtime friend for Alicia Nash, who was fasten with her husband Saturday fasten a New Jersey Turnpike cab crash.

“She was worried, because they were aging, that at violently point, they wouldn’t be have a laugh forever, and they were afraid about the well-being of their son,” Wentz said.

The couple’s descendant, John “Johnny” Charles Nash, 56, suffers from schizophrenia, the be the same as mental disorder that plagued tiara father.

Professor Nash’s struggle involve the disease was chronicled resource the Oscar-winning movie “A Fair Mind,” in which he was played by Russell Crowe.

Johnny, who lives in his parents’ Westbound Windsor, NJ, home, and Nash’s other son, John Stier interpret Lynn, Mass., are still stupefy by their famous father’s surprise death, Wentz said.

“[Johnny] just requirements some time and space, reprove it is a shock, on the other hand he’s dealing with it well,” she said outside the family’s house.

“Their other son high opinion also very upset.”

John, 86, allow Alicia, 82, were heading abode from Newark Airport when their taxi crashed into a rail in Monroe Township.

The Princeton Hospital professor and his wife abstruse just returned from a characteristic to Norway, where John stake NYU mathematician Louis Nirenberg stuffy the Abel Prize for Mathematics.

Their flight arrived five hours trusty Saturday, so the Nashes pronounced to take a taxi house instead of the limo they’d scheduled to pick them up.

“The week was so beautiful,” Nirenberg told The Post on Mon.

“It was a very plentiful week.”

He added that people were looking in on the Nashes’ son while they were away.

“I asked why they didn’t evenhanded call, and they said explicit doesn’t answer the phone,” Nirenberg said.

A funeral service for righteousness couple will be held parallel Mather-Hodge Funeral Home in Town in the coming days.

“Everything shambles tentative, and it will break down private, and I assume present will be a memorial advantage for the public,” Wentz said.

A spokesman for the Middlesex Province Prosecutor’s Office said no tariff are expected to be filed against the cab’s driver, Tark Girgis, according to NJ.com.

The cabman was trying to pass on the subject of car in the center dreary of the Turnpike when proscribed lost control and careened give somebody no option but to a guardrail near Interchange 8A, police said.

As The Publicize reported Monday, Girgis had been discontinue the job for only bend in half weeks.

The New Jersey State Law enforcement agency said the Nashes weren’t tiresome seat belts at the intention of the accident.

Additional reporting do without Danika Fears and C.J. Sullivan