Guilford’s Sue Kruczek Hangs Out With NY Yankees Star Aaron Judge

GUILFORD, CT - Guilford’s Sue Kruczek has become used to mingling with important people - after all President of the United States Donald Trump recently tweeted to her about all her efforts to stem the opioid crisis that has plagued our country.

Kruczek, who tragically lost her 20-year-old son Nick to a drug overdose in 2013, has spent the past several years as one of the state of Connecticut’s leading voices in trying to battle the opioid epidemic that claimed over 1,000 life’s in the state in 2017.

That voyage has seen her go to the state capitol for press conferences with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and her quest went national earlier this year when her story reached Trump, who sent this tweet back to her:

“Thank you to Sue Kruczek who lost her wonderful and talented son Nick to the Opioid scourge…We are fighting this terrible epidemic hard - Nick will not have died in vain!”

And now Kruczek, who was at a drug abuse conference earlier this week in Minnesota has met another celebrity - New York Yankees star right fielder Aaron Judge.

The Yankees were staying at the same hotel while playing a series against the Minnesota Twins and Kruczek was at the hotel attending a conference for a drug disposal pouch called Deterra.

And during the course of the stay at the hotel the Yankees team and Kruczek crossed paths.

Sue Kruczek couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get her picture taken with “All Rise” Judge, one of baseball’s most popular players who has been rehabbing from a broken wrist for the past six weeks.

On her Facebook page Kruczek added this parting comment: “Told him I was a Red Sox fan after the picture.”

Photo provided by Sue Kruczek