Celebrities who dramatically lost family members

Keanu Reeves has had to deal with misfortune all too often. But one particular loss stands out. He lost his daughter he had with fellow actress Jennifer Syme. The little girl was born prematurely and died a few hours later. It is speculated that such a traumatic event was the cause of the breakup between Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Syne in 2000. Just a year later, Jennifer Syne died in a car accident.

The singer and actress Jennifer Hudson was in the best moment of her career, back in 2008, when she experienced a terrible event: her brother-in-law killed her mother (in the picture next to the artist), a brother and a nephew during an insane fit of rage. He shot them, according to People, because he was jealous of a gift that Julia Hudson had received. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The Minnesota Timberwolves player was one of the people who has suffered the most from the Covid-19 pandemic in his family environment. Karl Anthony Towns lost seven family members to the coronavirus in 2020, including his mother, Jacqueline Cruz-Towns.

The American actor had to deal in mid-March 2009 with the death of his wife, Natasha Richardson, in a skiing accident. She phoned him while he was in Toronto in the middle of a filming and told him about her fall, but warned him not to worry. However, it was the last time he could hear her voice....

The 'Star Trek' actor found the lifeless body of his third wife, Nerine Kidd, in the pool of their Hollywood Hills home around the night of August 9, 1999, when she was only 40 years old. According to the autopsy, Kidd had elevated levels of booze and pills in her blood, which led to her fatal accident.

Charlize Theron's childhood and adolescence was marked by domestic violence as she told in an interview with the American public radio (NPR). In it she also said that when the actress was 15 years old, her mother put an end to it all by killing her father after he came home drunk one day and shot him three times with a gun.

The actor, who became famous for playing Tarzan in the 1960s series of the same name, experienced tragedy at home. At his residence in Hope Ranch, on the coast of Santa Barbara, on October 15, 2019, his son Cameron stabbed his wife, Valerie Lundeen. The young man was shot dead by the Police after trying to resist arrest.

John Travolta has lived through not one family tragedy in his life, but three. In 1976 he fell in love with Diane Hyland and was by her side until she died of breast cancer a year later. It was the same disease that took his wife, fellow actress Kelly Preston in 2000. From that love was born his son Jett, whom he also lost in 2009 to Kawasaki disease when he was 16 years old and they were on Christmas vacation in the Bahamas.

Newman's son Scott, who was born from his first marriage to Jackie Witte, suffered a motorcycle accident that led him to take painkillers. In 1978, when the young man was 28 years old, he died after consuming a deadly mixture of alc0hol, Valium, and painkillers.

Rocky V was the first time Sylvester and his son Sage shared screen, and again in daylight in 'Daylight'. But at the age of 36, he died from a heart attack at home caused by arteriosclerosis.

On March 20, 1991, Conor, the son of Eric Clapton and model Lory Del Santo, fell from a skyscraper in New York. Something that would scar the English artist for the rest of his life and that, as he explained, he was able to overcome thanks to music. He dedicated the classic 'Tears In Heaven' to his deceased son.

The ex-boxer lost his daughter Exodus, 4 years old, saying goodbye to her in his own arms. The little girl died entangled in a cable of her father's gymnastic machine and was discovered by her seven-year-old brother when she had already lost consciousness and nothing could be done for her.

French actor Guillaume Depardieu, 37, son of Gerard, died in November 2008 in Paris as a result of fulminant pneumonia contracted in Romania during the filming of Alexandre Iordachescu's 'L'enfance d'Icare'.

In July 2018, singer Tina Turner was struck by tragedy after learning that her eldest son, Craig Raymond Turner, had taken his own life at the age of 59. Shocked and broken by that, she defined him as "a sensitive being, too shy, who lived in solitude in his Los Angeles apartment".

The famous country singer lost her son Beckett (pictured) at the age of 21 to an opioid overdose at a time when opioid use had become a widespread scourge throughout the United States.

Anna Nicole Smith's son, Daniel Wayne, died in the Bahamas at the age of 20 from a lethal combination of drugs. The actress and model never got over that loss and fell into depression until she died, consumed by the drugs.

Prince had a son from his relationship with his first wife, Mayte Garcia. It was in October 1996 when Boy Gregory was born, but he was born with a congenital disease, Pfeiffer syndrome, which caused a premature fusion of the skull bones and was fatal for him. A week later he left them and, as the singer told Oprah in an interview, he burned everything they had bought for the baby.

The death of his first wife, Cassandra Harris, was followed swiftly by another tragedy. Harris died in 1991 from ovarian cancer, when she was 43 years old. 12 years later his adopted daughter Charlotte, died from the same disease and at a very similar age, at 41. "No one can escape the pain of life, because that is life," said the actor.

His stepson Kyle Glover, son of his ex-wife Tameka Foster, died in 2012 after being run over by a jet ski when he was only 11 years old. The fatal accident took place on July 6 of that year on Lake Lanier, about 50 miles from Atlanta. The young boy and a 15-year-old girl were riding on an inflatable tire and being towed by a boat when they were run over, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution recounted.

Joaquin Phoenix's brother, River, was destined to become a Hollywood star. In fact, he was already shaping up to have an interesting filmography. However, the excesses ended with him when he was only 23 years old. He died a victim of the consumption of illegal substances at the door of a bar belonging to Johnny Depp and in the arms of his brother, who tried everything to save him.

Joe Biden's life is marked by tragedy. In December 1972, his wife Neilia was involved in a terrible car accident with their three children when they were hit by a truck. She and their 13-year-old daughter Naomi were killed in the accident, and their older sons, Hunter and Beau, survived. In addition, in 2015, Beau also lost his life when he was 46 years old, a victim of brain cancer.

One of the most mediatic faces of the Royal House of Monaco, Caroline, like Rainier, Albert, and Princess Stephanie, suffered the death of her mother, Grace Kelly, in a traffic accident in 1982. But she also lost her second husband, Stefano Casiraghi, in a boating accident in 1990, when she was only 30 years old.

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