Bobby Womack opens up about the death of his baby...
Bobby Womack has opened up about the death of his infant child and how the tragedy sent him spiralling into a drug hell.
The legendary Across 110th Street singer had already lost one son, Vincent, who committed suicide and was still coming to terms with the death of his brother Harrym who was killed by a jealous girlfriend, when four-month-old Truth fell into a coma and died a week later in hospital.
The star admits he never truly got over the tragedy and blaims himself for leaving the baby unattended on a bed.
In a candid and heartwrenching interview with WENN, Womack says: ""I came in one night... from a convention and I was telling my lady, 'Baby, you've gotta get up, I've got something to show you!' And she said, 'Can we do this tomorrow? You know the baby...'
"I said, 'That little baby can't move. He can't even walk. He's taking five minutes to hold his head up...' So she jumps up and I was telling her all these stories... It was no more than two minutes before she said, 'OK, go and get my baby.'
"I went running in to get the baby. The baby had fallen down between the bed and the wall and he suffocated and that was the biggest hurt ever in my life."
Womack came to depend heavily on hard drugs which eventually robbed him of his creative edge - he spent years trying to find his passion for songwriting again.
He explains: "That death led to 'There's gotta be a better way... and from there, away I went. Every time I heard somebody had died - Johnnie Taylor or somebody else - instead of going to the funeral, I'd go and get high.
"Eventually I reached out to God and said, 'Look, I'm in trouble. I don't even know who I am.' I wanted to get the true feeling back... My passion for music never died; I was just trying to figure out how you get it back."
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