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Drena De Niro, 1 of Robert De Niro‘s seven children, spoke retired astir her 19-year-old lad Leandro‘s decease successful a caller message. Drena, 51, took to Instagram connected August 9 and cleared up the misconceptions of her son’s passing, aft it was confirmed that his cause of death was a cause overdose. “Since the circumstances of my son’s decease person taken connected a communicative and beingness of its own, driven by vicious, inaccurate hypotheses and conjecture by mode of trolling and randoms who person thing amended to bash than dispersed vitriol and symptom to radical who are already managing much than their stock of heartache, I volition accidental what I tin astir this,” Drena began her lengthy message.
The histrion said that Leo “was not forewarned to anyone’s cognition that helium would beryllium taking fentanyl laced substance.” Drena antecedently confirmed that Leo died from “fentanyl-laced pills” erstwhile she announced his passing connected July 3. “He was warned to ‘not instrumentality excessively many’ of the counterfeit pills helium was being sold and to ‘be cautious with these’ but this is precise antithetic than informing that a substance is successful information lethal oregon amended yet not selling it all,” she continued successful her Aug. 9 message.
Drena called retired the “stupidity” and “ignorance” of trolls who have blamed Leo, herself and adjacent Robert, 79, for what happened. She besides admitted that Leo “suffered tremendously” during the COVID-19 pandemic and “sadly addiction took implicit successful the past twelvemonth and yet killed him.” Drena noted that her family does not privation to beryllium “public tabloid fodder” arsenic they woody with specified an unimaginable loss.
Robert De Niro and Drena De Niro (Photo: Broadimage/Shutterstock)
Later successful her message, Drena called for alteration to halt blaming radical who are struggling with mental health similar Leo was. “Hopefully the publicity his precise bittersweet decease has garnered volition bring attraction to a overmuch bigger occupation and to each the different beauteous young lives that are being snuffed retired mode excessively soon and senselessly,” she wrote. “I besides anticipation his passing volition assistance bring much empathy, knowing and enactment to families and radical who are struggling with mental health, termination and addiction.”
Drena reiterated her sentiments successful her caption, wherever she noted that “there’s been a batch of misunderstanding and misrepresentation” successful regards to Leo’s death. Drena said that arsenic a parent she “can not beryllium by and not talk up” astir what truly happened. She asked her followers to beryllium “respectful” successful the comments conception of her station arsenic they respond to her susceptible and affectional connection astir Leo’s death.
Drena confirmed her lad died via Instagram connected July 3. A fewer days later, the De Niro household gathered unneurotic for a wake for Leo successful New York City. Leo’s funeral was held connected July 7, wherever Robert mourned his grandson arsenic galore of his personage friends — including histrion Christopher Walken and mega euphony shaper Tommy Mottola — were determination to enactment him. Robert’s woman Tiffany Chen, with whom he welcomed a caller baby successful April, was besides astatine the service.
One period aft the funeral, Leo’s origin of death was confirmed by New York City’s main aesculapian examiner. Leo passed distant from an accidental overdose of a premix of fentanyl, bromazolam, alprazolam, 7-aminoclonazepam, ketamine, and cocaine, according to a connection received by HollywoodLife.
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