What Happened to Voight’s Wife, Camille, on Chicago P.D.?
Heartbreaking Flashback: The Tragic Fate of Voight's Wife, Camille, Revealed!
Looking at the latest Voight-focused Chicago P.D. episode (Season 12 episode, Episode 4’s “The After”) it seems we’re in for another case that will bring up a ghost from his past: His wife, Camille. Airing Wednesday, October 16 at 10/9c, Voight (Jason Beghe) is involved in an investigation that’s eerily similar to a case he worked 15 years prior, right after his wife’s death.
When opening up to TV Insider about the episode, Beghe said: “He knew that he took the case before he should have been back to work, but he needed the work because he couldn’t feel the feelings. It was too much. He thinks that he failed to get the bad guy and solve the case and effect justice because he was mentally, emotionally inhibited by the grief. All of that is now coming back.”
ASA Nina Chapman (Sara Bues) will also be by his side throughout the case, as he grapples with these painful memories.
What happened to Voight’s wife, Camille?
Voight married Camille, an elementary school teacher, just six months after they met while being stuck on the L-train. She sadly died in the time before the events of Chicago P.D., so fans never met her. Initially, it was believed she passed from cancer, but it was later uncovered that what led to her death was much more sinister.
In Season 3, Episode 10’s “I Am God” (the third and final episode of a One Chicago crossover event) it’s revealed that Camille was likely the victim of serial killer and oncologist Dr. Dean Reybold. Reybold would overdose his patients — who didn’t actually have cancer — with unnecessary chemo treatments, unbeknownst to them or their loved ones.
The tragedy of being a widower has clearly deeply affected Voight, with her memory never being far from his mind throughout the 12 seasons. In a touching ode to her in Season 2, Episode 5’s “An Honest Woman,” Voight gave their son, Justin, his mother’s ring after it was recovered from robbers. Justin later used it to propose to his wife, Olive.
“This is a person who has completely changed Voight’s life,” Beghe tells NBC Insider about his character’s wife. “So, everything you see in Voight is colored by her, you know? She was one of the few people who he fully let in. They changed each other, I’m sure. The fact that it’s brought the forefront of his mind, it kind of tenderizes him, which is a double-edged sword because it makes him more vulnerable, but that makes him more prone — and probably subconsciously — determined to put up his armor.”
