CLAPTON REVEALS THE HORRORS OF HIS SON’S DEATH IN MEMOIRS
ERIC CLAPTON has recalled the heartache of losing his son CONOR in his new autobiography, revealing he had taken the four-year-old to the circus the night before he fell to his death from his mother’s New York apartment.
Clapton, who penned classic ballad Tears In Heaven after the 1991 tragedy, spent the night before his son’s death enjoying his first father-son outing alone with Conor.
After taking the boy home, the rocker admits he was swelled with confidence as a father and decided he wanted to spend more one-on-one time with his son when he was in New York.
In Eric Clapton: The Autobiography, Clapton writes, "The following morning I was up early, ready to walk crosstown from my hotel to pick up (Conor’s mother) Lori (del Santo) and Conor to take them to the Central Park Zoo…
"The phone rang and it was Lori. She was hysterical, screaming that Conor was dead. I thought to myself, ‘This is ridiculous. How can he be dead?’ and I asked her the silliest question, ‘Are you sure?’ "And then she told me that he’d fallen out of the window. She was beside herself. Screaming. I said, ‘I’ll be right there.’" Conor had fallen 49 storeys from a high-rise window.
In his memoirs, Clapton also recalls the horror of having to identify his son at the morgue.
He adds, "Whatever physical damage he had suffered in the fall, by the time I saw him they had restored his body to some normality.
"As I looked at his beautiful face in repose, I remember thinking, ‘This isn’t my son. It looks a bit like him, but he’s gone.’"
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