Ahead of the family’s first Mother’s Day without Porter back in May, the rapper admitted the annual holiday was “going to hurt.”
He told Essence: “Mother’s Day is going to hurt. We definitely are going to celebrate all the mothers. We’re not going to get in the way of that.
“Honestly, anybody that has lost a mother or lost a soulmate — it takes time. It takes time. They say time heals all wounds when it comes to mothers … I don’t think that’s the case. That’s not a negative thing because as people, we need wounds. You need something to sting you sometimes and keep you on point and teach you a lesson.”
The 49-year-old music mogul — who also helped to raise Porter’s son Quincy, 28, from a past relationship — then became emotional as he spoke about the pain of losing his ex-partner.
He added while crying: “I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’m going to figure something out, though. This hurts so much. I know that people want to hear the good stuff, but it hurts and there ain’t no way around that.”
