Gabby Petito’s ex-boyfriend Brandon reveals his last memory of her and says she’s ‘left a mark on the world’

Gabby Petito's ex-boyfriend has spoken about his last memory of the tragic vlogger and said she has "left a mark on the world."

Brandon Williams shared a tribute to the 22-year-old who was last month pronounced dead after her remains were found in a Wyoming national park.

Petito's fiancé Brian Laundrie has since been named a "person of interest" by the FBI after her remains were found.

The couple had been traveling across the country together in their converted van over the summer - but Laundrie returned to the Florida home the couple shared with his parents on September 1 without her.

Sharing images of him with Gabby together, Brandon wrote: "I was lucky enough to have the privelage [sic] of both knowing and loving you.

"The last memory I have with you was the summer of 2017, before I left, we were sitting in my car down by the water."

"You had a journal in your hand. Any ordinary person would write in a journal, with words, but not you, you were extraordinary," he added.

Williams added: "Each page had these in depth drawings depicting how you felt and what you were experiencing, all I can remember was how impressed I was, telling you how talented, and creative you were, honored and touched that you trusted me enough to even share with me something so personal.

"Because that's exactly the type of person you were."

Williams also shared two images of Gabby - one showing the two of them together as children.

He said there "wasn't a single person" in their hometown of Blue Point, New York, who "didn't know who she was."

Gabby was a "recurring influence" in his life "even though we were only a bunch of stupid kids when we first met", Brandon added.

He went on: "It absolutely breaks my heart that the rest of the world only knows you as a case file, a missing persons report, a victim.

"Because to your friends, your family, my family, me and Blue Point as a community, you were simply just Gabby, and that was more than enough."

Brandon added: "This is a wound that will never heal, the mark you no doubt would have left on this world, but now can't, will haunt me forever.

"The fact that I will never be able to check up on you, and be there for you ever again, will haunt me forever. The fact that Im deployed outside the country and can't even be present at your funeral, will haunt me forever.

"You will never be forgotten Gabby, your loved ones, and now the whole world will make sure of that. I love you now and forever, rest in peace Gabby."

Featured image credit: Instagram/Gabspetito