Posted on 03/21/2017 5:14:59 PM PDT by Morgana
A new memoir by Mayte Garcia, ex-wife of the late singer Prince, reveals a beautiful but tragic story about their son who lived just a few days outside the womb.
Yahoo News reports their baby boy, Amiir, was born on Oct. 16, 1996 with a genetic disorder called Pfeiffer syndrome type 2, and lived for six days.
Despite Amiirs genetic disorder and his short life, he was precious to his mother and father. In her new book, The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince, Garcia said their main concern was for their sons life.
Heres more from the report:
When Garcia, then 22, discovered she was pregnant, she and Prince were overjoyed at the thought of raising a family at their home in Paisley Park. The pregnancy went smoothly until she began bleeding one day and a doctor recommended an amniocentesis to test for genetic abnormalities. The procedure, the doctor warned, carried a risk of miscarriage.
Yet as the doctor told them: Sometimes the body is trying to release the fetus for a reason. But Prince, Garcia writes, was against it: My husband said, No, were not doing that.
Once home, the couple prayed for his health.
Please, bless this child, said Prince as he prayed on his knees. We know you wont allow this child to be harmed.
Further appointments revealed more causes for concern. Garcia said an ultrasound showed that Amiir was smaller than he should be, and one doctor suggested he might have a form of dwarfism.
My husband and I looked at each other and shrugged, Garcia wrote. And? he said. Im totally fine with that. I laughed. Of all the possible outcomes that had been offered to us, this was the first one that didnt terrify me.
She said when Amiir was born, she saw pure joy on her husbands face. But the joy turned to fear and pain upon seeing Amiir. Garcia said he had severe physical abnormalities. Their little boy died six days later.
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Garcia said neither she nor Prince ever really got over Amiirs death.
I dont know how anybody can get over it. I know I havent, she told People.
Lindsley Allen, a dancer who worked with Prince, previously told People that the baby boys death was devastating to the couple.
It was really sad. I think he was really looking forward to being a father, Allen said. It was very difficult for them and I dont think they really recovered from that. I felt a very paternal feeling from him but yet that was something that he never really had known.
I remember they had built a swing set out in the back and they had a playroom built, she continued.
Garcia later miscarried their second child. She said the tragic losses of their two children likely was what drove them apart.
I believe a child dying between a couple either makes you stronger or it doesnt, she said not long after Princes death. For me, it was very, very hard to move forward and for us as a couple I think it probably broke us.
The celebrity couple divorced in 2000.
A friend & coworker of mine flew Prince & Mayte to London and they were in business class, if I remember her story correctly. She referred to them as “hipster doofuses” and said that Prince would not speak directly to flight crew, but would instead whisper to the wife, who would then speak to them. Sounds pretty affected to me.
THAT is the link, that is the performance. Prince was an awesome musician.
I’ve seen “Purple Rain” but that was decades ago. I didn’t respect him then like I do now.
It’s very kind of you to alter your view on him. God blessed him with marvelous talent. Hubby and I were fortunate to see him live once. It’s something that stays with you forever. Had I known about this horrible pain he carried in his heart, Purple Rain would have had me openly weeping at the venue.
That's why we chose not to. We had lost a child to miscarriage and there was no way we were going to do anything to harm this second one. So the test was irrelevant for us.
When I was was working a part time job in high school I went to lunch with one of the other guys and when we got in his car he said "I've got to make a stop and drop something off before we eat." He reached under the seat and gave me a brown paper bag to hold and off we went. When we arrived he took the bag, opened it and showed me a great big (really big!) back of pot inside. Told me it was a quarter pound. That's four ounces. My god, that's a lot of weed. He delivered it and we went on our way.
Looking back, I realize now that if we'd gotten pulled over I would probably have ended up in jail for a very long time. I now am certain that's why he had me hold the stuff while we were driving. I was the patsy designated to take the blame. I'd punch that bastard in the face if I ever saw him again.
Post 40 - great link also. I come from the Zeppelin/Pink Floyd/Deep Purple era, and I didn’t initially give Prince his musical due.
BTW, if I ever hear stairway to heaven again it will be too soon. Zeppelin 1 and 2. Dazed and confused.
Xanax and other benzodiazepines don't depress respiration to the extent that opioids and barbiturates do.
I'm not sure most people understand that if you find someone who is not breathing or barely breathing due to an overdose of barbiturates or opioids, that you should start CPR on them immediately while you wait for the ambulance. If they get enough oxygen, they can probably survive.
In my younger days I maxed out at 20mgs in a day.
That's a lot. Much more than I ever took. Xanax helped me deal with my insomnia, but I decided that I liked its effects a little too much. I haven't used it in many years.
I went to a number of Prince performances and concerts “back in the day,” business took me up to Minneapolis, well, Chanhassen actually, I’ve been in Paisley Park. He was far more talented than was generally acknowledged in his heyday. Got lumped in with Michael Jackson, Morris Day & The Times, etc. but was far beyond them musically. Overshadowed by lyrics that more than just occasionally were pure raunch. Loved it at the time, still enjoy it although said lyrics are uncomfortable for me now, I tend toward the less overtly sexual tunes now, whereas at the time those were the high point. Very hardworking, both as a musician and as a performer. I never experienced a bad concert, he went above and beyond every single time. Earned my respect. Strange man, I don’t think he ever understood himself.
It’s a way to keep distance between himself and the public, to make it clear that he would like his privacy. You would be shocked at how horribly pushy people can be; by employing an intermediary, it forces people back a step to where they would normally be and act, interacting with a regular Joe and not a “superstar.” Seems aloof, but when you are mobbed quite literally everywhere you go, you employ social mechanisms like this or learn to live like a hermit.
I’ve seen many concerts in my day (Kiss, The Who, Rush, ZZ Top, Grateful Dead, Stevie Ray Vaughn twice, the list goes on as I like all kinds of music...). Prince’s Purple Rain Tour performance in NY ranks as one of the best. He put everything he had into it and the place was on fire.
We were as well. In our case the test would have given us a heads up to prepare for some pretty serious stuff at birth. The doc was fine with our decision (meaning there was no pressure at all about going to term).
Every case is different. I guess the overall point is that people are constantly tested. I loved that baby girl before I knew her.
barbiturates are hard to get these days from a doc because of that. you’re right. That’s like Valium, right?
much easier to OD right?
I read horror story about a group called Final Exit Network that posts where to buy in Mexico and China the drug they use to kill inmates with to commit suicide.
Nembutal i think it is
they also tell you how to make a helium mask
sick.
But I made one anyway just in case hillary won.
No, Valium is another benzodiazepene. People rarely die from ODing on Valium.
Nembutal and Seconal are barbiturates. They are prescribed much less frequently than they used to be, partly because of the overdose risk.
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