Keyshia Cole's mother Frankie dies after overdosing at her 61st birthday party in her Oakland home に引き続いて １０年間s-long struggle with 中毒

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R&B singer Keyshia Cole's 生物学の mother has died of a 麻薬 overdose while celebrating her 61st birthday at her Oakland, California home.???

Frankie Lons, who appeared と一緒に her daughter on the reality show Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is in 2006, died on Sunday に引き続いて a 騒然とした and １０年間s-long struggle with 中毒.?

Keyshia was given up for 採択 at a young age by Lons and her 生物学の father, ボクシング trainer Virgil Hunter.

She was raised by family friends?Leon and Yvonne Cole before only 再会させるing with her birth parents as an adult after she 設立する success as a singer.

Keyshia has not yet commented on her mother's death.??

Her younger sister, singer/songwriter エリート Noel, took to her Instagram stories to 確認する the news.

'Worse 苦痛 ever..... to see my mama in a 団体／死体 捕らえる、獲得する on her birthday! My heart so f***in broke,' she wrote.??

Heartbroken: Keyshia Cole's mother, Frankie Lons, died of a 麻薬 overdose on Sunday while celebrating her 61st birthday at her Oakland, California home. They are pictured together leaving the Late Show with David Letterman in New York City in 2008

Heartbreaking:?Keyshia's younger sister, singer/songwriter エリート Noel, took to her Instagram stories to 確認する the news of their mother's death

Keyshia's brother, Sam, also 確認するd Lons had relapsed on her 'long, hard-fought 旅行 to sobriety'.

He told TMZ that he had been checking in daily on their mother and had been trying to help her stay clean.??

Grammy-指名するd Keyshia, who is a mother-of-two, had been open over the years about her 生物学の mother's 麻薬 中毒 and the 苦痛 she felt having to watch it.?

In a 2018 地位，任命する on social マスコミ,?Keyshia wrote:?'Every time my mom relapse, it breaks my heart more than it's already been broken.?

'I'm hoping, if any of u are 取引，協定ing with a family member who's 戦う／戦いing with 麻薬 中毒, that you, yourself are learning how to 対処する with the struggle of it all.

'And all the 苦痛 it brings to see a loved one 絶えず relapsing. See them go 支援する to the streets Because that's what they're used to, or would rather be. I really 行方不明になる you! And will always love u.'?

She also frequently 演説（する）／住所d her 複雑にするd family dynamics in her 2006 reality show, Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is, and later on Keyshia Cole My New Life in 2019.?

Keyshia, who is pictured with her mom in an undated photo, has not yet commented on her mother's death

Reality TV: Keyshia and her mother Frankie starred together on the singer's reality show?Keyshia Cole: My New Life in 2006

Struggle: Keyshia was frank about her mother's 戦う／戦い with 中毒. 'Every time my mom relapse, it breaks my heart more than it's already been broken,' the singer wrote in 2018. (Frankie is pictured here in 2014)

Her mother made 外見s on both shows over the years during which they discussed?Lons' 中毒 and the 可能性 of her dying.? ??

'Some things happen out there in the streets and it 脅すs a child, the thought,' Keyshia said.

Lons replied: 'One day chicken and the next day feathers. If I die today you're going to move on and you've got to make it. You've got to live for Keyshia'.??

'You have to live for you and your family not nobody else. You don't have to do nothin' but die and 支払う／賃金 税金s, but you have to move on if anything happens to me. You can 嘆く／悼む, but at the end of the day you'll see me later. Up there.'

'That's not 承認する, that's not something to say because that's not going to make me happy, in this moment, that moment, to never not have you,' Keyshia 答える／応じるd.

Cole 追加するd:?'I couldn't imagine my kids having to fend for themselves without my 保護. Even though I'm a grown woman, I feel like you should still want to be there.'

'It 脅すs me to think that one time I'm gonna come and I'm not gonna find you,' she told her mom.?

Frankie said: 'I'm a be always where you can find me. Even when God calls me. A mother's love will always 保護する you.'??

Keyshia Cole?was given up for 採択 at a young age by?Frankie Lons and her 生物学の father, ボクシング trainer Virgil Hunter

Lons ended up finding reality television success and starring in her own spin-off show, Frankie & Neffe, と一緒に Keyshia's sister, Neffeteria Pugh.?

Keyshia was born and raised in Oakland and was introduced to the music 産業 at a young age when she 記録，記録的な／記録するd with MC 大打撃を与える.?

She formed a friendship with late rapper Tupac Shakur, whom she credited as 存在 one of her 最高の，を越す 助言者s during her teen years.

'I remember him 存在 really outspoken and really 有望な. He was definitely a guy who gave off a superstar vibe,'' she told the Contra Costa Times in 2008.?

'As far as advice goes, he once told me, 'Acquire as much knowledge a s you can, because, no 事柄 what happens, people can't take that away from you.'?

Keyshia first 設立する fame with the 解放（する） of her chart-topping debut album, The Way It Is in 2005.

Her second album Just Like You was 解放（する）d in 2007 and was 指名するd for Best 同時代の R&B Album at the Grammy Awards. She went on to 解放（する） five more albums.??