For hours on Aug. 22, Melanie Tomas stood next to Joey Kovar's coffin, refusing to leave his side, until the last of approximately 1,000 mourners finally left the Kosary Funeral Home in Evergreen Park, Ill., at 11 p.m. Even now, more than two weeks after the wake for her off-and-on boyfriend - a reality star from MTV's The Real World: Hollywood in 2008 - Tomas, 24, is struggling to make sense out of his sudden death at age 29. "Joe was in the best mind frame and direction of his life," Tomas, who is the mother of Kovar's 2-year-old daughter Maira, tells People.
- 9/6/2012
- by Dahvi Shira
- PEOPLE.com
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