“It was the worst way you could die.”
Taraji P. Henson began about a difficult moment of truth between her and her son, Marcell.
In a preview of Wednesday’s new installment of her Facebook Watch series ‘Peace of Mind with Taraji’, the 50-year-old actress reveals how her son found out his father, William LaMarr Johnson, was killed when Marcell – now 36 – – was just a child.
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“My son’s father was suddenly taken, killed when he was 9, and I did not know how to tell him that,” Henson said. “I could not tell him that he was killed, and I told him he died in an accident. Later in his life he found out and he came back to me and was like, ‘Why did not you have me? said my father was killed?? ‘And then we had to get therapy.’
After the therapist Sierra Hillsman sought advice to talk to children about similar situations, parents should explain that sometimes there are situations where people do bad things to other people.
“I did not have the balls. I did not. It would not come out. I hid it. I read it …”, Henson replies and is choked. ‘It was in the newspaper and I did not know how to tell him. He was stabbed to death, that was the worst way you could die. I just did not have the words. I did not know how to be a 9-year-old. “
The full episode goes into how Henson worked through the grief of suddenly losing her son’s father, to an episode of Tuesday where she chatted with King Von’s ex Asian Doll and Pop Smoke’s brother, Obasi Jackson, about sudden loss.
Watch the episode below:
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