SAD LOSS. The evening news shook the entire country. A great loss for all of us.

Christina Sandera, the 61-year-old longtime partner of Clint Eastwood, 94, has died.

“Christina was a lovely, caring woman, and I will miss her very much,” the actor wrote in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.

Sandera and Eastwood met while she was working as a hostess at his Mission Ranch Hotel and Restaurant in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.

Eastwood split with his second wife, TV anchor Dina Ruiz, in 2014, after almost 20 years together and began dating Sandera the same year.