'BECAUSE OF YOU': Read the legendary performer's touching final words to his family.
Tony Bennett's son and widow shared the singer's final words to each of them during their first interview since the legendary musician passed away.at the age of 96, according to a post shared on the singer's Instagram page. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2016, but no official cause of death has been given.
"That he loved me ... he would wake up every day and still say that," his widow Susan Benedetto recalled."He woke up happy every day."The performer also kept singing until the very end, and Benedetto revealed his final song was his very first hit,"Because of You.""The music never left him," she said.
"We would leave," Benedetto recalled,"and Tony’s like, 'Susan. I’m really okay. We don’t have to come back.'" "He came into my office one time. And he said, 'I was watching MTV.' He goes, 'I think I can do that.' And then walked out," Danny recalled."And I was like, all right."
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