Prince died in April from an accidental overdose of the painkiller fentanyl. Prince was loved the world over but few knew him intimately. And ours was a rare, almost otherworldly connection. I want to share our love story, and with it the highs and lows — always coming from a loving place, as this man is still part of my family and always will be.
By Ross Raihala rraihala pioneerpress. A few months after they married, Mayte discovered she was pregnant, and she gave birth to a son - who was named 'Boy Gregory' on the birth certificate. However, the tot suffered from a rare genetic conidition called Pfiffer's Syndrome, and he died six days later from complications relating to the diagnosis. Some couples are brought closer together after the loss of a child, others are driven apart; in our case the latter happened.
It came a week after his private jet was forced to make an emergency landing after he fell ill on board. Following toxicology and autopsy reports, it was reported that the singer died of an accidental overdose of Fentanyl. This man was my everything, we had a family. It had everything a perfect nursery needs, except for the only thing a perfect nursery needs. And when Oprah asked Prince about the baby's health problems, he replied: 'It was all good. Never mind what you hear.
Red hot: Garcia on stage with Prince in , two months before their wedding left and performing at his tribute concert last October in Minnesota right. And though she appeared happy, Garcia reveals in the memoir that she was at the darkest place in her life with no one to talk to about her pain - even her husband. I assumed he was hiding them to keep me from hurting myself. Garcia admits that she still thinks about her baby boy, and how writing the memoir brought back many of the heartbreaking memories from this time.
It is Prince however who is responsible for the title, with Garcia choosing to name her memoir after the song she inspired her ex-husband to write. Sneak peek: Garcia' memoir is excerpted in the new People, on newsstands Friday.
Garcia previously spoke about how difficult it was to process her husband's passing shortly after his death, telling People: 'I can't even think of the words of what I'm feeling. This man was my everything, we had a family. I am beyond deeply saddened and devastated. She then added: 'I loved him then, I love him now and will love him eternally. He's with our son now. Garcia and Prince's relationship never recovered from the death of Amiir, and after splitting the couple had their marriage annulled in , on the date of their third wedding anniversary.
They still spent time together after the split, attending the MTV Music Video Awards in September of that year, and their affection for one another lived on until the singer's death. It was also not until that the couple divorced, choosing to live 'in a less traditional fashion' after the annulment.
Their friendship ended soon after when Prince married again in , shortly after Garcia was told that the singer had an assistant burn all reminders of Garcia and Amiir. Garcia writes that it was difficult for her because she thought the two might get back together despite their separation and divorce.
She eventually wrote to him in and said she was ready to forgive him, meeting her ex-husband in Las Vegas for one of his shows. When he got to where I was sitting he took my hand and pulled me up into his arms and hugged me,' writes Garcia.
After their divorce Garcia had a two-year relationship with drummer Tommy Lee, but said time and time again in interviews that she would always love her ex-husband. She is now a choreographer and actress, most famous for her work on the music video for Britney Spears' song 'I'm A Slave 4 U,' for which Garcia choreographed the belly dancing routine performed by the pop star and her dancers.
New man: Garcia dated drummer Tommy Lee for two years after her split from Prince above. Garcia is also committed to helping rescue dogs and finding them homes, and has an Instagram page that features her and some of her canine friends. Most importantly though she is a mother, something she spoke about just a few weeks after Prince's death while appearing at the Single Mom's Awards in Los Angeles.
After that, I was broken. And I lost hope. I basically gave up my dream of becoming a mom. Things changed however when she joined the cast of the VH1 reality show 'Hollywood Exes' said Garcia, who spoke publicly about her loss for the first time while appearing on the program. That is why a woman reached out to Garcia after seeing the show, and offered to help her adopt a child. Soon after, she welcomed her daughter Gia into the family when the baby girl was just eight-months old.
At the time of that speech, Garcia had just experienced the second greatest loss of her life with the passing of Prince. And in the weeks and months after his death, reports began to detail Prince's very private struggle with addiction over the years, and how days before his death he had to be rushed to an Illinois hospital after he became unresponsive while flying home to Minnesota. Prince's plane made an emergency landing and he was revived after receiving Narcan, at which point he left against medical advice.
The day before his death a specialist in addiction medicine was contacted by members of Prince's team, with the man agreeing to treat the singer and immediately sending his son to Paisley Park to get started on an treatment plan for opiod addiction. His son arrived the following morning, and was one of the three people in the house who discovered the singer's lifeless body.
Garcia, 43, talked about Prince's final days in the interview accompanying the People excerpt, revealing that she had been told by mutual friends that 'something was wrong' with the singer.
Looking back, Garcia says it is clear what she should have done when she first received word about her ex-husband's behavior. She said that during their time together she never saw him use drugs, but said he did seem 'foggy' once and got sick another time on what he said was red wine and aspirin. And when asked what she thought Prince would have to say about her memoir were he still alive, she said: ' I don't think he would say anything.
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