NELLY FELT POWERLESS OVER FAMILY DEATHS
Rapper NELLY has opened up about the cancer deaths of his sister and gran dfather, revealing he felt powerless because he was unable to help them b eat the disease.
The hip-hop star was left devastated in 2005 when his sister Jackie Don ohue lost her battle with leukaemia and his grandfather died six months l ater from cancer.
Nelly has previously admitted he almost quit the music industry because he couldn’t cope with the grief, and now he has opened up about the hear tache further, admitting he felt useless because he was so used to being able to use his vast fortune to overcome any personal struggles.
He tells MTV News, "I lost my sister in ‘05 and almost didn’t make it b ack… I lost my sister and six months later I lost my grandfather. Both of them the same way - different diagnosis but both of them was due to ca ncer.
"We had done so much to try to find a donor for my sister. I don’t know if you ever had someone ailing from cancer in your family, but it’s some of the most disheartening things to watch people go through so much pain and not be able to do anything about it.
"To have so much, so much money, so much things that you can basically buy your way out of it, but this thing here you can’t get a grasp on it f or nothing in the world."
Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network (www.wenn.com)
