choking

“There are so many people that have come up to me and said, ‘I’m a writer because of you,’ ” he said, choking back tears.

And, just like that, we were out of the choking smoke and into the gentle morning sunlight.

The former agent was first arrested after he was accused of choking his estranged wife and placing her in a wrestling hold last year.

Asked if that container may have had other types of mushrooms in it, Ms Patterson, choking up, said: "Now I think there's a possibility that there were foraged ones as well."

Lane recalls watching the play and choking up when Lavin absent-mindedly wiped off a phone receiver — her character was always cleaning — right after a wrenching phone call.