Death of Coolio: his ex, Afida Turner, confides in their relationship and reveals how she learned of the drama

The music world is in mourning. Wednesday, September 28, 2022, Coolio was found dead in a friend’s bathroom in Los Angeles at the age of 59. According to TMZ, it was while he had been locked in the room for some time that his friend became concerned and discovered him lying on the floor. Saturday October 1, 2022, the ex-girlfriend of the American rapper, Afida Turner, went to the set of TPMP People, on C8. In a relationship for three years in the 2000s with Coolio, this one was particularly moved. “I’m shaking… Me who still have a strong energy“, she first said. Asked by Matthieu Delormeau about his death, the young woman let go: “He didn’t drink alcohol. Maybe he really had a heart attack. It is possible with such an intense life.“

Reflecting on the last time she saw Coolio, Afida Turner said: “Not too long ago, in April. He saw in my story that I was in Miami and he is someone who is very intense. He said to me: ‘I know you’re there, we absolutely have to see each other.’ I said to him: ‘No, I don’t have my hair done!’ And he said to me: ‘I don’t give a fuck, I want to see you now!’ I told him to give me an hour, so I got ready and we met at the Palm Hotel, the restaurant bar. We stayed from 4 p.m. until 4 a.m.“Struggling to hold back tears, the artist said:”I’m sorry, I’m not the same person today, I have trouble pronouncing my words… The day before he died, I had a kind of premonition. I said, ‘Today I don’t play sports, I don’t work.’ We went down to Marignan with a friend. I couldn’t stop thinking about him for three, four days. We drank a bottle of red wine, I smoked two cigarettes – which is very rare – and I was stressed.“

Afida Turner: “He was someone who had quite an eventful life”

The star recalled: “I woke up at 5 a.m. with a headache. I open my laptop I get a message: ‘Sorry for your loss. I love you my angel, I’m so sorry.’ (Sorry for your loss. I love you my angel, I’m so sorry, editor’s note). But there was no name of the person. And when I click on the link, I see a page from TMZ: ‘Coolio died at 59.’“Moved, Afida Turner added: “Coolio was my ex-fiancé when I was young. We met in 2002, we stayed together for three years. He was someone who had quite an eventful life. Me, I didn’t want to disorient myself too much and have a more correct way of life so I broke up with him. But each time he came back, on my birthday or Christmas with flowers. And I was like, ‘I’m sorry, it’s over.’ And then, I left with him.“Thursday September 29, 2022, in an interview with Le Parisien, she had already declared:”Dying at 59 is very, very serious, very sad… For once, I don’t know what to tell you.“