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 Amiir’s 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 son’s life.
Here’s 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, we’re 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 won’t 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. ‘I’m totally fine with that.’ I laughed. Of all the possible outcomes that had been offered to us, this was the first one that didn’t terrify me.”
She said when Amiir was born, she saw “pure joy” on her husband’s 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 Amiir’s death.
“I don’t know how anybody can get over it. I know I haven’t,” she told People.
Lindsley Allen, a dancer who worked with Prince, previously told People that the baby boy’s 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 don’t 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 doesn’t,” she said not long after Prince’s 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.
My wife had an amneo. While it was useful, it had no bearing our decision to have a child. But on the scary meter, it was pretty much dialed up to 11.
Wow.
I admire Prince for not wanting to see if the child was “defective’ so they could abort, as is happening WAY too much.
I wonder though, how much an effect of lots of drug use has on miscarriages.
My friend’s brother smoked about an ounce A DAY. Probably for 10 years before his wife gave birth to a terribly sick child.
Then they had a healthy one.
So who knows?
Maybe eating tons of processed food for 10 years before is bad too.
I don’t know.
Wow they lost two kids, that is tough. Could be another reason why he turned to drugs. I still do not understand how he got fentanyl. They use that stuff for anesthesia and for cancer patients and this guy was popping them like candy. And incredibly after he overdoses and it taken to a hospital near death, he is left alone where OF COURSE he overdoses again and dies.
It is almost impossible for one person to smoke an ounce of weed a day.
He was perfect btw, now 16 and gorgeous!
I never cared for Prince while he was alive. He seemed to me a little self-important and narcissistic. My moniker for him was “the Purple Pansy with a messiah complex.”
Since his death, I’ve read several items that challenge my former view. He seems to have been a sensitive and caring soul whose values matched my own much closer than I had any reason to expect.
I often get in my flesh and, without realizing it, judge others harshly if their initial impression is not what I would like. That is the opposite of Christian love. And it is in direct opposition to the teachings of my Lord.
A much belated rest in peace, Prince.
An ounce? No way.
Fentenyl patches are not hard to get.
Actually, while he died of an OD it was from painkillers due to an injury to his back.
They guy was just normally weird.
Yeah, many years ago I was a very heavy dope smoker. I smoked as much as I could on a daily basis. On my best day I don't think I smoked an entire ounce. I might have, but I'm not sure.
And pot back then was nowhere near as potent as it is now.
No force with you. Must go back to the padawan school with you.
While he died of a drug overdose, he was very anti drug in his early life. He seems to have only gotten addicted to pain killers later in life as the pains of his early days dancing and performing caught up with him.
Prince was the first entertainer I knew who would get up and give thanks to “My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” for the most vile songs I ever heard...whose lyrics would make a prostitute blush!
Ah, maybe I’m wrong. I Was high at the time.
It’s NOT EASY to overdose and die on drugs, unless it’s a YUGE amount and/or you have some booze with it.
I had a friend who took 100mgs of xanax and while he was in psych for a few weeks, he didn’t die.
100mgs. Like what I need when I read about comey or obama or clinton or lynch or farrett or holder or...
I have learned things about him too since he died. Prince was always a hard guy to figure out. He had a weirdness factor up to eleven, but a lot of it seems to be just stage performance. He was apparently too shy to speak to people normally. If you could get to know him, he was apparently quite normal and not at all like him on stage. He did do a lot of charity work anonymously. At the time he died he was having a hospital built in Africa.
Wow. I “dabbled” (lol) in my college years , late 80’s early 90’s, can’t imagine an ounce. Not judging by no means.
He became a Jehovah’s Witness around 2000 or so. I recall several stories about people claiming he knocked on their door to witness to them. No one believed them but the local paper looked into it and it was him..
An ounce is really a lot.
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