Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns recently appeared on Hollywood actress Taraji P. Henson’s Facebook Watch series, “Peace of Mind with Taraji,” where he opened up about losing his mother to COVID-19.
Jacqueline Cruz-Towns last April due to complications from COVID-19. She was 58. Cruz-Towns had been “battling the virus for more than a month,” a family statement said at the time. She had been hospitalized after experiencing symptoms, including a high fever and a persistent cough.
“It was just one of those things,” Towns told Henson. “It just kept getting harder and harder and worse and worse on her, and no one really knew what they were doing. As her son and someone who loves her so dearly, I just didn’t want to see her in pain, so I was trying to do everything possible to make her comfortable and get her better quicker.”
“I flew in, I put the hazmat suit on and everything, and I went in there, because I was like ‘If anyone’s going to see her out, I’m going to see her out’. I knew it was going to be the last time, so I was kind of working that out.”
He continued, “That day changed me as a man,” he added. “I’m never going to get that innocent young boy back. That’s gone. Ever since that day, I feel like the world just made me a little colder. It took what was most valuable to me, so I don’t have that kind of feeling for it.”
Watch another clip from the interview below.
