'How are you really?' Tyka Nelson asked her older brother, Prince, near the end. But he wouldn't answer her directly.
'How are you really?' Tyka Nelson asked her older brother, Prince , near the end. But he wouldn't answer her directly.died at the age of 57 on April 21, 2016 after an accidental overdose of fentanyl at his Paisley Park home in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
"He kept avoiding questions. I kept getting mad. I felt like 'talk to me for two seconds,'" Tyka says of her last phone call with Prince, four days before he was found dead. Tyka is the only sibling who shared the same mother and father as Prince -- Mattie Della Shaw and John Lewis Nelson. They had– Sharon L. Nelson, Norrine P. Nelson, John R. Nelson, Omarr Baker and Alfred Jackson. Prince, born Prince Rogers Nelson, was married twice, but both unions ended in divorce, and he had no children. "He'd change the subject, make a joke and then we'd both laugh.
"Prince wanted me to find Sharon's number. I didn't question it," she adds."It was like 'send this picture to that person.' OK. What for?""A couple of times I said, 'How are you really?'" Tyka recalls, noting she hadn't noticed that Prince had any illnesses, though she did realize he'd lost weight after hugging him."He didn't go into anything with me," she continues.
"It was insane," she said of her time with the artist."I always wanted to play drums in a rock and roll band, that was one of the things I always wanted to do because I started playing percussion first. And when I told Prince, I said, 'I wanna play drums in a band. I don't wanna be a lead artist anymore. I just wanna go play with people.' And he was like, 'OK, wanna play in my band?' I'm like, 'Sure.
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