Graham Nash has claimed David Crosby died amid a bout of Covid-19.
Throughout a latest look on the Kyle Meredith With… podcast, the Crosby, Stills & Nash singer reported that his former bandmate contracted the virus shortly earlier than his passing on the age of 81 in January.
“He was rehearsing for a present to do in Los Angeles with a full band,” Graham recalled. “After three days of rehearsals, he felt a little bit sick. And he’d already had Covid, and he had Covid once more.
He continued: “He went dwelling and determined that he would take a nap, and he by no means wakened. However he died in his mattress, and that’s implausible.”
Beforehand, David’s household launched a press release wherein they introduced the music icon had died after battling a “lengthy sickness”.
He had suffered many well being points over the course of his life and underwent a liver transplant in 1994, which stemmed from his previous issues with drug and alcohol habit.
“I imply, the truth that he made it to 81 was astonishing,” Graham continued. “However (his dying) was a shock. It was form of like an earthquake, you recognize? You get the preliminary shock after which you determine that you just survived. However these aftershocks saved arising, they usually’re diminishing in dimension as I am going alongside.”
In February, Graham defined in an interview for AARP that he and David had been estranged for a few years however had been within the strategy of reuniting.
“We had been getting a little bit nearer on the finish. He had despatched me a voicemail saying that he needed to speak to apologise, and will we arrange a time to speak,” he recounted. “I emailed him again and mentioned, ‘Okay, name me at 11 o’clock tomorrow your time, which is 2 o’clock on the East Coast.’ He by no means known as, after which he was gone.”
