Weeks since Jake Hall's passing
Missé came on the show just weeks after Jake Hall's sudden death, with the funeral having taken place only a week prior.
Snapshot · We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson
Jake Hall’s Ex On Sudden Death: “I Wish He Called Me” | Missé Beqiri
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Jun 30, 2026
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Paul and Misse Acknowledge the Passing of Jake Hall
At 2:51 · chapter starts 1:46
Paul C. Brunson opens the conversation with unusual care, noting that just a week has passed since Jake Hall's funeral and that Missé is still deep inside raw, early grief. Missé explains she chose to speak here because Paul creates a space of honesty and warmth that made her feel safe. She describes her inner experience since Jake's death as total disbelief — a feeling that someone will wake her up and tell her it isn't real [1] — Missé Beqiri "Till this day, I'm like, surely it's not true. Like, someone is going to wake me up and say it's a bad dream. Like, it's not happened. It f…" 05:58 . Paul reflects briefly on his own familiarity with Jake, noting it was Jake's clothing brand Preview that first put him on Paul's radar when Paul arrived in the UK in 2018.
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