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Robert De Niro’s daughter Drena De Niro claimed that her son Leandro De Niro Rodriguez died after taking capsules laced with fentanyl.
“Somebody offered him fentanyl laced capsules that they knew had been laced but nonetheless offered them to him so for all these folks nonetheless f—king round promoting and shopping for this s—t, my son is gone perpetually 😭,” Drena, 51, informed a social media consumer on Tuesday, July 4, when requested how her son died. Leandro was 19 years previous.
Drena introduced Leandro’s loss of life two days earlier.
“My stunning candy angel. I’ve cherished you past phrases or description from the second I felt you in my stomach. You have got been my pleasure my coronary heart and all that was ever pure and actual in my life,” Drena, who shared Leandro with Carlos Mare, wrote by way of Instagram on Sunday, July 2. “I want I used to be with you proper now. I want I used to be with you.”
She continued: “I don’t know find out how to reside with out you however I’ll attempt to go on and unfold the love and light-weight that you just so made me really feel in attending to be your mama. You had been so deeply cherished and appreciated and I want that love alone might have saved you 😞.”
Leandro’s father, for his half, honored his late son within the remark part of Drena’s publish.
“😢 My pricey Drena … phrases aren’t sufficient to specific the enjoyment he gave us or the loss we now endure with our households and associates. He’s Godschild now. 🙏🏼,” Mare commented on Drena’s Instagram tribute. “On this full moon his spirit luminates what couldn’t be seen at nighttime. You’ll be able to’t spell LOVE with out LEO 👼💔💔.”
Shortly after the information broke of Leandro’s loss of life, Drena shared her gratitude for all of the help she and her household had acquired following their tragic loss.
“It’s with immeasurable shock and disappointment that we are saying goodbye to our beloved son Leo,” she stated in a press release to Us Weekly on Monday, July 3. “We thanks for the outpouring of affection and help and ask that we’re given privateness presently to course of this inconsolable grief.”
Robert — who’s the daddy of seven kids — adopted Drena whereas he was married to his first spouse, Diahnne Abbott. Leandro was the Oscar winner’s oldest grandson.
“I’m deeply distressed by the passing of my beloved grandson Leo,” the Meet the Mother and father star, 79, informed Us Weekly in a press release on the time. “We’re enormously appreciative of the condolences from everybody. We ask that we please be given privateness to grieve our lack of Leo.”
Previous to his loss of life, Leandro appeared in a number of movie roles alongside Drena together with 2005’s The Assortment, 2018’s Cabaret Maxime and the 2018 remake of A Star Is Born.