EXCLUSIVE: NFL 星／主役にする Vernon Davis opens up about mending his fractured 関係 with his 麻薬 （麻薬）常用者d mother and the 'painful' moment he was 軍隊d to take her off life support after she became sick with COVID-19 this year

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NFL 星／主役にする Vernon Davis has opened up about the emotional moment he had to switch off his mother's life support machine, in an 排除的 interview with DailyMailTV.

Davis, now a TV host and Hollywood movie actor, was 直面するd with the painful choice earlier this year after his mother 契約d COVID-19, 苦しむd a sudden cardiac 逮捕（する） and was left brain dead in hospital.

The former San Francisco 49ers tight end said he had only begun to 再構築する his 関係 with her five years earlier, after her 麻薬 中毒 during his childhood destroyed their 社債 and left them estranged.

Davis, 37, also 明らかにする／漏らすd how his family's dark struggles gave him the 運動 to 後継する as a celebrated プロの／賛成の football player and later as a serial entrepreneur, actor in Bruce Willis 活動／戦闘 movies, and now as a 裁判官 in the new Fox show 支配 Masters.

Vernon Davis, 37, opened up on his rough childhood and the death of his mother in an emotional interview with DailyMailTV?

The former San Francisco 49ers tight end had recently reconciled with his mother Jacqueline Davis (pictured with Vernon and his three kids in an undated photo) who had been estranged from him after 落ちるing into 麻薬 中毒 when he was a child?

Jacqueline Davis died on March 11, 2021, after Vernon and his siblings made the 決定／判定勝ち（する） to take her off life support. She had been left brain dead after 苦しむing cardiac 逮捕（する） brought on by COVID-19?

Delving into his childhood, Davis told DailyMailTV how his grandmother raised him and his five siblings in a three-bedroom Washington, DC apartment, while his mother struggled with 中毒 and his father was absent.

He 述べるd the shocking moment he discovered his youngest brother Michael would be committed to an 亡命 age 19 after 殺人，大当り a man with a sledgehammer in a 無作為の attack.

And Davis 明らかにする／漏らすd he himself had a run-in with the 法律 at age 12 when he was given two years' 保護監察 for breaking into a neighbor's home to steal - a turning point he said made him 'straighten up' and 始める，決める his mind on a career in football.

Davis's social マスコミ is 十分な of pictures of him はっきりと dressed and 冒険的な a Hollywood-white smile, 武器 around celebrities and actors 含むing Bruce Willis with whom he is starring in 近づいている 活動／戦闘 movie Day To Die.

But he told DailyMailTV he has come a long way from his しつけ in a poor 近隣 in 1980s DC.

'My grandmother raised my six siblings and I. We grew up in a three-bedroom home in Washington, DC. My mom was always on 麻薬s. My dad was never around. My mom and my dad never （機の）カム to a football game as a kid,' Davis said.

'Watching my mom on 麻薬s walking up and 負かす／撃墜する the street was 全く embarrassing for me as a kid.

'As I got older, it lived in me and I had to learn how to channel those emotions because I had so much 怒り／怒る, 苦痛 and 当惑 inside of me.

Davis told DailyMailTV how his grandmother Adeline (権利) raised him and his siblings, while his mother (left) struggled with 中毒 and his father was absent

Vernon's grandmother tried to keep him and his brothers and siblings on the 権利 path as children, however, he 収容する／認めるs he still ended up 落ちるing in with the wrong （人が）群がる and got into trouble. He is pictured left at age 14 and 権利 at age four?

Vernon (支援する 権利) and his five sibling grew up in a three-bedroom? apartment in Washington, DC?

'It's not what you have or what's been given to you, it's about how you make people feel. That's very important to me, my grandmother instilled that in me since I was a kid.'

Davis said にもかかわらず his grandmother Adaline's teachings, age 12 he fell in with the wrong （人が）群がる and started breaking into houses in his 近隣.

'As a kid I would always 減少（する） my 調書をとる／予約する 捕らえる、獲得する and go out and play. In the community that I lived in, if you're outside that means you're more susceptible to get in trouble,' he said.

'I broke into someone's home, we stole some items and I was 逮捕（する）d. I was put on 保護監察 for a year or two.'

Davis said that experience - and a scolding from his grandma, 80 - finally woke him up.

'She 選ぶd me up and she was getting on me,' the ex-NFL プロの／賛成の said. '[She said] "You got to get yourself together, I didn't raise you like this. You have no 商売／仕事 doing that, that's not you."'

'That was the last time I was in trouble. From that moment I changed my life.

'I separated myself from my friends. I went to a different high school instead of going to the high school in my 近隣, just so I could start new and get away from all the 消極的な 行為.

'I was like, hey, if I am going to make it in this life I'm going to have to be 戦略の. I knew that from a very young age.

'By the time I turned 13 my whole life was changed. I was in the 国家の 栄誉（を受ける）s Society, I was a grade A student, I started to work out, to train, and I excelled in sports. From that moment, I never looked 支援する.'

The 星／主役にする 競技者 managed to clean up his 行為／法令／行動する in high school and became a letterman in football, basketball, and 跡をつける & field at Dunbar High School?

His major break （機の）カム when he was 草案d to the NFL in 2006 and moved out west. Davis's younger brother Vontae (pictured left with their mother) later followed in his footsteps

Vernon said he remained estranged from his 麻薬-（麻薬）常用者 mother (pictured left with Vernon and his father) for １０年間s, but managed to get clean in 最近の years. By 2016 he said he felt ready to 再構築する his 関係 with her

Davis became a letterman in football, basketball, and 跡をつける & field at Dunbar High School in Washington and ended up 存在 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d as the fourth-best tight end prospect of the class of 2003, によれば 古記録 競争相手s.com 最高位のs.

He majored in studio art at the University of Maryland, and racked up impressive 統計（学） for the Terrapins college football team.

His major break （機の）カム when he made the professional 草案 in 2006, moving out west to 調印する with the San Francisco 49ers.

Davis's younger brother Vontae followed in his footsteps, with 激励 from Davis.

'Vontae used to stay in the house and play videogames all the time. But I knew he had talent. I could just tell as a kid he was unique, he h 広告 talent. He just had to tap into it,' Davis said.

'He was 草案d four years after I was 草案d. He played for 10 years at a professional level. He was the best at his position for many years.

'Emotionally we're tied at the hip. Everything that he was 影響する／感情d by when it （機の）カム to our mother and our しつけ, he felt that, and I feel like he used that energy to help catapult him into the position he was in today, in the success he was able to 達成する.'

But Davis 明らかにする／漏らすd that the best 競技者 of the family was not him or Vontae, but their younger brother Michael.

'He's probably the most phenomenal 競技者 in the family. He's better than myself, better than my brother Vontae,' Davis said.

Davis?played for the San Francisco 49ers fr om 2006 to 2015. He was then 貿易（する）d to the Denver Broncos, where he won 最高の Bowl 50 after the 2015 season and 調印するd with the Washington Redskins - now Washington Football Team - in 2016 and retired in February 2020

'He 現実に taught Vontae how to play. When I was in college I would go home and Michael was probably 12 years old at the time. He would be there critiquing Vontae. Vontae was 16 going on 17 and he was teaching Vontae how to play the game.'

Though Michael had long 展示（する）d some 半端物 行為, their grandmother was 関心d when he became 積極的な as a 十代の少年少女.

'One day when I was in San Francisco my grandmother called and said 'hey he's punching the 空気／公表する, I don't know what to do, I don't know what's wrong with him',' Davis said.

'Maybe a year after that a 報告（する）／憶測 （機の）カム out that a kid was going 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the 近隣 hitting people in the 支援する of the 長，率いる with a sledgehammer.'

It turned out that kid was 19-year-old Michael.

After a 洪水／多発 of seemingly 無作為の 大打撃を与える attacks that 負傷させるd five, in May 2012 Michael was 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d with first-degree 殺人 over sledgehammer 殺人，大当り of 66-year-old Denver tourist Gary Dederichs.

He was also 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d with two counts of 強襲，強姦 with 意図 to kill while 武装した.?

にもかかわらず his rough しつけ, the football player saw success as a professional 競技者 and now as an actor in Bruce Willis 活動／戦闘 movies, and a 裁判官 in the new Fox show 支配 Masters

The 37-year-old has 移行d to TV and films and will 星／主役にする と一緒に Devon Sawa (left) in 近づいている 活動／戦闘-thriller, ガソリン Alley?

検察官，検事s said Michael snuck up on people in his Petworth 近隣 in Northwest DC and 攻撃する，衝突する them on the 長，率いる with a 大打撃を与える.

One 犠牲者 was bludgeoned just 500 feet from the Davis family home.

Davis said his younger brother was 診断するd with schi zophrenia after the attacks.

A psychologist 決定するd Michael was incapable of standing 裁判，公判, and he was committed to a mental 施設, where he still resides.

'Here's a kid who has a chance to be one of the best 競技者s to play football, he was that good. Illinois knew about him, Virginia knew about him, Maryland knew about him,' Davis said.

'But now, he doesn't get a chance to do that because he's struggling with this disability that he has that's linked to mental health.

'That was a 一時期／支部 of my life I had to fight to get through and continue to be the man for the family.'

Davis said he remained estranged from his 麻薬-（麻薬）常用者 mother for １０年間s. But in the years after the 殺人，大当り, she managed to get clean.

By 2016 he said he felt ready to 再構築する his 関係 with her ? as luck would have it, just when the then-Washington Redskins 申し込む／申し出d him a 位置／汚点／見つけ出す in his old hometown.

'It was the perfect 始める，決める up for me to be able to spend time with my mother,' he said.?

'I never thought I'd be playing ball 支援する in Washington DC. I never imagined it, but it happened.

'I 全く took advantage of all that time. All those days I spent playing with that team, I spent a lot of them with my mother.

'We didn't have the best 関係 just because she was never really around. It was just a struggle. She struggled with 麻薬s for so long, it was hard to be able to communicate with her because I was 持つ／拘留するing on to so much.

'But when I got 支援する to Washington, in that year my mom and I started talking more… I knew how important it was for me to cultivate a good 関係 with her.'

Davis said a turning point （機の）カム when he used some of his プロの／賛成の footballer salary to get her the gift she'd always 手配中の，お尋ね者.

In 新規加入 to 存在 a 星／主役にする 競技者, film actor, and contestant in Dancing with the 星／主役にするs, Vernon is also father to Valaughn, seven, and Jianni, 13, and nine-year-old daughter Valleigh, whom he had ex Janel Horne

Doting dad: Vernon and his kids Valaughn, Valleigh, and?Jianni

'She would say it was the best thing ever in her life. Something she always 手配中の，お尋ね者 that she never had: a car,' he said.

'I said 'Okay ma, we're going to start you off small because this is your first 乗り物.' She was so excited, she was like "oh my gosh," jumping up and 負かす／撃墜する.

'I took her to an auction in DC. She 設立する the car that she 手配中の，お尋ね者. It was a Chevy Impala. That was a nice car.

'That changed her entire life. She was so excited, it was almost as if she got 草案d or something. She took such good care of that car, it's still parked at my grandma's 権利 now.

'That made me happy to see her happy like that, knowing I could make her happy before she left this earth.'

Davis said his mother even started coming to his football games, something she never did when he was a kid.

A consummate hustler, Davis was not content with just a 最高の，を越す tight end 職業 for a major team. He started taking 事実上の／代理 classes in San Francisco and auditioning for movie and TV 役割s.

Soon he scooped a part in the 2017 Zac Efron and Dwayne 'The 激しく揺する' Johnson movie Baywatch, and Frank Grillo/Ron Perlman western Hell on the 国境 in 2019, 同様に as TV reality and game show hosting 役割s.

While 狙撃 another Frank Grillo and Patrick Schwarzenegger thriller called, The ヨット, out in Mississippi in March this year, Davis got a call from his brother with terrible news.

H e said his mother had caught COVID-19 then 苦しむd sudden heart 失敗, and was in a 昏睡 in a DC hospital.

'By the time I arrived at the hospital they said "your mom's brain dead, we're going to have to pull her off'," Davis said.

Speaking to DailyMailTV, Davis?said his own experience with COVID-19 led him to be even more 感謝する for the time he was able to spend with Jacqueline after reconnecting in 2016

'That was the woman from [whom] I got everything I had. My ambition, my 願望（する） to do what I needed to do to be successful.

'I looked at her and I took a breath, I called my siblings and said 'we're going to have to pull the plug, she has no brain activity and it's been hours, it's been days.'

'So I watched my mother take her last breath. And it was the most painful thing that I have had to go through.'

Jacqueline Davis died on March 11, 2021 老年の 57.

In a cruel 新たな展開, the actor and former tight end （機の）カム 負かす／撃墜する with coronavirus symptoms soon after, and had to pull out of the Mississippi filming, losing his 位置／汚点／見つけ出す in the movie.

But Davis said the experience led him to be even more 感謝する for the time he was able to sp end with Jacqueline after reconnecting in 2016.

'I spent so much time with her, all the time that I didn't spend with her in the past. It's like I 回復するd that, those moments that we 行方不明になるd. It was very beautiful,' he said.

'I did the best thing a son could ever do for his mom, is show up when she's about to take her last breath. Other 適切な時期s will come, you just have to be 患者.'?