Grammy winner Judith Hill's name is going on my list of Prince confidantes who should've stuck to him like glue after the emergency stop in Moline, Ill.
Hill told the New York Times that she was on that private plane having dinner with Prince when his eyes became fixed and he lost consciousness. Prince and other members of his small entourage were flying from Atlanta to Minneapolis when Prince had to be "revived on the tarmac with a shot of Narcan, which is typically used to treat opioid overdoses. Eighteen minutes after landing, the ambulance took him to nearby Trinity Moline Hospital," reads the NYT.
In an especially haunting revelation, Hill told the NYT that Prince told her I had to fight for my life. I remember hearing your voices from afar and saying to myself, Follow the voices, follow the voices, get back in your body, you gotta do this. And he said it was the hardest thing he'd ever done, to get back into his body like that.
Hill declined to tell the NYT if she and Prince shared a romance, instead saying, "There was a very intense relationship. I deeply cared for him." Not long before he died, she said, "He told me that he loved me and that he would always be there for me. I was with Prince the last two years of my life."
If Judith and Prince were that close, then Prince fan Cheri Bosch has some questions.
"Why didn't she keep him in the hospital? Why was he all by himself that night? That I don't understand," said Bosch. "They all knew he had a problem, so you wait to the last minute to get him help? A day late and a dollar short, don't you think?"
Flying high with Prince
I ran into Cheri Bosch at the newest stop for Prince fans, the Chanhassen Cinema mural by Australian artist Mr. G.
Figuring the area would be mobbed Wednesday night during the official christening of the artwork, Bosch came out early, as did a constant stream of fans.