Being a step away from reaching the Super Bowl hasn't eased Jets owner Woody Johnson's grief over the death of his troubled daughter, Casey.
“One doesn’t help the other,” Johnson told reporters today following the team's practice in Florham Park, N.J. “Because the other is reality. There’s no way to bring her back. I wish I could change it, but I can’t.”
Casey was found dead Jan. 4 inside her Los Angeles home. The cause of death has yet to be determined.
In his first public comments since Casey's death, a choked up Johnson said he was overcome with emotion on Jan. 9 when the Jets defeated the Cincinnati Bengals and coach Rex Ryan handed him the game ball.
He said that despite the team's historic playoff run, the past two weeks have been brutal emotionally.
"After Cincinnati, when I got the ball, too many things hit me at once," he told reporters. "That's part of it. When you have a major loss, you show your emotions... I think of it all the time."
The Jets play the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday in the AFC Championship.
Friends have told The Post that Johnson spent the last months of her life in a suicidal drug haze -- living in squalor, surrounded by hangers-on and cut off from her family fortune.
On a tape of the 911 call after Casey Johnson's body was found, an unidentified woman described the Johnson & Johnson heiress' body "ice cold" and said, "Her hands are turning blue."
The caller then offered a possible cause of death.
"Her medication gets all screwed up," the woman said. "It's probably because of that."
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