Surfers Alex Gray, Jeff Miller discuss surf champion Irons’ ‘Kissed by God’
Alex Gray and Jeff Miller “let the sunshine in” during their talk about Andy Irons: Kissed by God.” Phtos In August, 2004, Alex Gray was competing in the Quiksilver Pro in Hossegor, France, when his parents visited with news they wanted to tell him in person. Jimmy Miller had killed himself in his parents’ Manhattan Beach home. Miller had been Alex’s older brother Chris’ Junior Lifeguard instructor. He had taught Chris to surf and Chris had taught Alex to surf. What Gray described as “an unfortunate, common bond” between the Gray and Miller families deepened. Six months earlier, Chris Gray had died of an overdose. Gray and Jeff Miller discussed their “unfortunate common bond” Thursday night on stage at the Hermosa Beach Community Theater, following a sold-out screening of “Andy Irons: Kissed by God.” Irons was the ASP World Tour champion in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Enroute to his 2004 title, he won the Quiksilver Pro Gray was competing in when his parents told him of Jimmy Miller’s death. Irons’ father Phil grew up in Torrance and moved to Hawaii to surf in 1970. “Kissed by God” recounts Andy Irons’ legendary rivalry with 11 time World Champion Kelly Slater. More significantly, the…
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