Samuel Johnson's heart-wrenching family reunion
Samuel Johnson has shared a sweet video with his ‘other sister’ Hilde, who he says he “lost” while “being a good brother for Connie”.
The siblings posted a video to the Love Your Sister Facebook page to announce their involvement in the Sydney Harbour Run on July 29.
Samuel and Hilde will run with other charity supporters while wearing rainbow ‘Connie Cottonsocks’ to raise money for cancer research.
Since it began in 2014, Love Your Sister has raised over $8 million.
In their video, the siblings joke around with each other about filming the announcement for the charity run.
"I'm here to make a video," Hilde says while Samuel distractedly wipes his nose with a tissue.
"Me too for the 'Rainbow Run,'" he eventually replies.
"I normally do it with my brother," Hilde explains.
"I normally do it with my sister," Samuel responds.
In the video, the duo light-heartedly joke around with each other with Hilde saying that she needs a rest from her brother because “he’s so intense”.
Samuel replies by saying he doesn’t want to film a video with his sister because she’s so "joyous and infectious and more popular than me like my other sister Connie."
"I just want one video in which I can shine," the actor adds.
Hilde has been appearing more on the Love Your Sister social media accounts as they continue to fundraise for cancer research following Connie’s death in September 2017.
It was Connie’s third cancer battle after being diagnosed with bone cancer at 11 and uterine cancer at 22.
Earlier this year, Samuel confessed in an interview with 9Honey that he had been struggling to continue to work for the charity following his sister’s death.
"My head just hasn't been in the game," the 40-year-old said at the time.
"There was a bunch of stuff that she left me with that I had to make sense of. Now that I don't have her to help guide this, I had to do all my homework and I had to make sure that we get this right for her.
"I can't just bounce back from burying her and push forward blindly."
Samuel said Connie was “the brains of the operation”, while his role was “just the muscle”.
"I was the guy that pedalled," he said, referencing one of his first fundraising campaigns from 2014 that saw him travel via unicycle around Australia.
"And it's a very complex problem that we're trying to solve. And I wanted to get it right. It took me eight months to find a way forward and I'm confident that I'm doing what's best for her and for every other family that feels the same pain."
The ‘Rainbow Run’ is the next fundraising event for Love Your Sister, with the Johnson siblings planning to “drench Sydney harbour with a ‘human rainbow’”.
"It's a two-sided dream," he explained to 9Honey in June.
"It's a chance for us to get together and use my favourite weapon against cancer which is joy and love. It's also a chance for us to just start our subtle way of calling for an end to 'cancer racism'".
The rainbow ‘Connie Cottonsock’s aim to combat cancer racism, a term Samuel uses to explain how some cancers receive a love of attention, while others struggle for funding.
"We've adopted the rainbow theme to say all cancers matter and that they must all be vanquished and maybe we should consider swearing away our allegiance to our particular colours."