Prince‘s personal chef of three years, Ray Roberts, said the pop icon was sick in the months leading up to his unexpected death at age 57.
Prince Rogers Nelson was found dead in an elevator at his sprawling Paisley Park residential studio complex on April 21.
Roberts told the Associated Press his boss wasn’t feeling well for “weeks at a time.”
“It felt like he wasn’t himself probably the last month or two,” said Roberts. “I think he was just struggling with being sick a lot,” Roberts told the AP.
A confidential source told Sandrarose.com the “Adore” singer committed suicide because he was tired of being sick all the time.
Roberts, who worked 100 hours a week cooking for the Grammy winning singer, said Prince asked him to prepare food that was easily digested because he suffered from frequent sore throats and upset stomachs.
Roberts said the singer had lost weight and wasn’t himself in his last days, “not even a hint. Not at all.”
Prince, who was a vegetarian, was eating less and drinking less water, which could have caused dehydration.
His symptoms are consistent with oropharyngeal thrush, one of the classic opportunistic infections that doctors require to diagnose HIV patients with AIDS.
Thrush is caused by an overgrowth of yeast (fungus) that normally resides in the stomach and on the skin in tiny amounts.
The symptoms include white patches on the tongue and throat, sore throat, difficulty swallowing, abdominal pain, diarrhea, weight loss, loss of appetite, weakness and mood changes.
If Prince was diagnosed with oral thrush in the months before he died, his doctor would have told him then that he had full blown AIDS.
Staff at a Walgreens near the singer’s home said he was picking up medications used to treat HIV patients the day before he died.
The singer may have seen his own mortality and realized he was going to die if he didn’t take HIV/AIDS suppressing drugs.
“I wish he was still here,” Roberts said, wiping away a tear. He said the singer’s last meal the day before he died.
Roberts cooked a roasted red pepper bisque with a kale and spring vegetable salad dinner. But Prince never ate it. Roberts told the AP he returned to the compound a few days later to attend Prince’s memorial after he was cremated.
He said he found the plate in the refrigerator — untouched — just as he’d left it.
Roasted beets, though.
RIP………Prince Rogers Nelson
I consider myself lucky to have been in the audience for his finale performance. He ripped that piano and lit that stage. One would never suspect that he was ill on that night. He gave ATL his all. God rest his soul.
I wonder would be be talking if Prince was still alive.
There are no inside sources. You do not know why or how Prince died. You are not going to convince anybody otherwise. This is baseless and pointless.
My ONE question is – if Prince knew that he had full blown AIDS and was about to die, why didn’t he prepare a will? Where is the will?
Good Morning AGAIN! Since I remembered to hit send as soon as we had a new post ??
I’m watching ‘kiss’ right now! They gon RESPEK Prince. His NAME, his LEGACY and his GREATNESS!??
Also, why would PRINCE go inside Walgreens to pick up his own HIV/AIDS medication? That makes no sense whatsoever. Regular people get their HIV/AIDS meds DELIVERED to THEM. So, we’re supposed to believe Prince is going to personally roll up in the Walgreens, showing his face, picking up medications for AIDS. FOH.
I love roasted beets with balasnic and olive oil and yello peppers and micro greens. I will have that for dinner.
i’m confused by this too. he is so deliberate that i have to believe that it is either (1) stolen (in which case he could have left a copy in the care of an attorney) or (2) he really didn’t want one.
There’s a picture out there of him in the Walgreens parking lot near his house. And some of the Walgreens employees have told the media that they saw him come in regularly to pick up medication from them.
That’s not so hard for me to believe.
I’m trying to figure out why if he didn’t have a WILL, why would anyone know anything? His own SISTER is trying to get access but randoms for the inside scoop? Why would he use the corner pharmacy? Why wouldn’t he have it delivered or someone else pick it up or use a fake name? All these ‘inside sources’ need to stand on the edge of a cliff on a windy day ?
two of my friends were there and said the same.
Why make it easy or the slobs.
-SAD FACE- I COULD BELIEVE HE WENT OUT ON HIS OWN TERMS…HE ALWAYS STRUCK ME AS THAT TYPE.
GOOD MORNING
Some people purposely dont want one. Their attitude is like: “Hey, I dont care. They can fight over it when I’m gone”.
I dont think that’s a very responsible way to handle things, especially when you’ve got $200+ million on the line, but some people do it that way.
if he was looking like aids-on-a-stick, i doubt it too. riding a bike around, partying with friends, etc. hell, i don’t like to go out of the house when i’m having period cramps….
What Zoe, that made laugh….if he wete hete?
Scrappy face
Hey low, yes agree. Let you vultures fight.
I think no will because he didn’t know or trust his family so he gladly wanted the attention after death of them fighting over it. People really want us to know he had AIDS, damn! !
They are saying he had about 7 or 8 fake names
It was until I saw photo
Exactly! Sandra Rose is not very bright.She needs to be called out on these false stories on my idol. I’m SICK of it!
BELIEVABLE!
it’s just amazing that there was no single person in his life that made him say, i want to deliberately ensure this person is taken care of. i guess the rightful heirs will split it up. i don’t want to leave anything up to the state. i assume his attorneys asked him numerous times.
Than you. That was my initial thought. So who was in his circle? Did he have a circle? I don’t think so. These sources need to geaux!
People are going to talk when someone passes away, its life. We do it when someone passes in our family or community. Its just human to want to know how someone died.
The good thing in this case is everyone seems to have only good things to say about him. seems the chef really had a good relationship with prince and im sure he felt good knowing that he was selected to cook him. He even looked yo see if he had eaten his food ?
People are going to talk when someone passes away, its life. We do it when someone passes in our family or community. Its just human to want to know how someone died.
The good thing in this case is everyone seems to have only good things to say about him. seems the chef really had a good relationship with prince and im sure he felt good knowing that he was selected to cook him. He even looked yo see if he had eaten his food ?
But it wasn’t AIDS medication. I’ll be so glad when the autopsy reports come back to clear all these lies up.
But it wasn’t AIDS medication. I’ll be so glad when the autopsy reports come back to clear all these lies up.
Nothing about his death adds up, this is one of the most mysterious deaths I’ve ever heard of , which makes me believe , there is something really sinister going on surrounding his death.
Nothing about his death adds up, this is one of the most mysterious deaths I’ve ever heard of , which makes me believe , there is something really sinister going on surrounding his death.
I sympathize with those who are in pain often and can’t take it. I have shoulder and neck problems and I swear, childbirth was easier – and I birthed ALL natural.
Sometimes I think about the definitive possibility of being rid of my pain and discomfort but then I think about how my children would feel if I were absent from their lives prematurely, and I think about how I know there are some people that are wayyyyyyyy worse than me… I can still walk and turn my head.
So I just thank God, pray the pain goes away forever and I keep pushing.
Amen
I sympathize with those who are in pain often and can’t take it. I have shoulder and neck problems and I swear, childbirth was easier – and I birthed ALL natural.
Sometimes I think about the definitive possibility of being rid of my pain and discomfort but then I think about how my children would feel if I were absent from their lives prematurely, and I think about how I know there are some people that are wayyyyyyyy worse than me… I can still walk and turn my head.
So I just thank God, pray the pain goes away forever and I keep pushing.
Amen
Yeah, I really do believe you can be sick as hell and if you doing something you love, a single soul would not know. Your diet can extend your life.
I had end stage kidney failure..never did dialysis (port is still in arm) Ate only beans, tofu and veggies for a year. The day before my surgery I cooked a, for 30 people
Everybody was like you look great, are u sure u need surgery. Hours before surgery I had 2 percent function, I should have been laid out….God Grace kept me.
Yeah, I really do believe you can be sick as hell and if you doing something you love, a single soul would not know. Your diet can extend your life.
I had end stage kidney failure..never did dialysis (port is still in arm) Ate only beans, tofu and veggies for a year. The day before my surgery I cooked a, for 30 people
Everybody was like you look great, are u sure u need surgery. Hours before surgery I had 2 percent function, I should have been laid out….God Grace kept me.
i was trying to understand how he went on to battle with the record company only to let the money go right back to the white folk for not taking care of business.
i was trying to understand how he went on to battle with the record company only to let the money go right back to the white folk for not taking care of business.
right, people want us to know and CARE….
right, people want us to know and CARE….
Prince ever gonna get to RIP or nah?
Prince ever gonna get to RIP or nah?
Im sick of these folks with diarrhea of the mouth…you werent talking before he died so why talk now?
Im sick of these folks with diarrhea of the mouth…you werent talking before he died so why talk now?
Your the most evilest blogger I ever seen.
Your the most evilest blogger I ever seen.
Staff at a Walgreens near the singer’s home said he was picking up medications used to treat HIV patients the day before he died
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Cause celebs usually get their medications in their actual names and not aliases
Staff at a Walgreens near the singer’s home said he was picking up medications used to treat HIV patients the day before he died
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Cause celebs usually get their medications in their actual names and not aliases
Agreeded, just curious.
Lol! I mean would the chef be running his mouth about Prince health if he were still alive. Everybody talking now that he gone.
Nobody dying of AIDS is walking in a walgreens to get their meds. Especially not a celebrity
i had to take an HIV med following as a PrEP.. The insurance company had to authorize the prescription to be filled in the pharmacy because they want people to use mail order. And then the first pharmacy didn’t even have it in stock because it was rare that people picked it up in person… it is usually mail ordered.. Per what the pharmacist told me
I’m struggling with the fact there are multiple news stories and blog posts about him everyday since he died. Why can’t be just be dead.
David Bowie died and he was just dead, Chyna azz dead and I know something off there, nar a peep, and do we know what Gary Shandling died from?? Prince name being dragged and he end is the same, he’ll still be dead, No Jon Snow here!
Ha ha ha ha ha!!!! When Scrappy can’t understand you….it’s all bad.
It looks like it’s gonna go to all his siblings. There’s about 6 or 7 so far, including half-siblings he barely spoke to. Plus a niece came out of the woodwork and is making a claim too. So technically its probably all gonna go to “family”. But most of these are “family” he didnt really have a close relationship with. Pretty much its like they hit the lottery.
Aids-on-a-stick though…lmao
Yeah u right, even his hairdtylist sooke out….just how good if a person he was. His tour bus driver. The couldnt speak then….iono
So sad
Saw him deacdes ago. #grateful
Amen! Glad you are doing better! I lost a classmate to sudden kidney failure, I mean in months he was on home dialysis and his legs looked like tree trunks. horrible for a person who was skinny as a beanpole. He posted a YouTube video on his dialysis process on a Tuesday and on that Thursday he was dead
Did you notice the color of hose you mentioned- Bowie, Chyna, Shandling? I don’t believe everything is about color but a lot of things are. This was a great black man who died when no one would have predicted. Folks are gonna dig. He was uncontainable yet intensely private, in life. This is the time when everyone can share their story, theory, memory, suspicion, and get a lil check in the making. It’s sick.
Right! Unheard of ! For someone that was such a recluse ,and fiercely private he’s going to the local drug store to get AIDS meds. If that were the case he may as well had gone to media and did a press conference stating he was sick. I will not and do not believe anything the media says, they can and will manipulate anything. There’s no will (allegedly) so Warner Bros. can try to get their devilish hands on his catalog.
Beets are yummy – taste like dirt smells right after a nice spring rain! Nom nom!
Because people like talking to the media with their “inside information”.
Makes them feel important .
What happened – stabbed with a needle?
well, Prince might be the biggest star to die since Michael Jackson. He was way bigger than Chyna or even David Bowie. So none of this media frenzy surprises me at all.
I don’t see it as a dragging. I see it as an attempt at catharsis. Those other people were important, more so to some than others. But, Prince was PRINCE! Prince touched everyone. From the man standing on the corner talking about the neighborhood can’t hold him to the redneck at night with a light on his head searching for gators. Prince was the shit. He was a kind-hearted and smart. You could tell just by seeing his presence on the television screen and/or hearing his songs come out of the speakers. The collective conscious needs to make sense of his death. There has to be a reason why a 57 year old kind-hearted man is just taken away. Poof. Gone. No More. Without sense, without a reason, the uncertainty and chaos of not-knowing is too much for many people. The dots must be connected. There are more people wired like that than not. Therefore, it is all just part of the process. It takes nothing away from Prince. The conclusion will change nothing with the way his music and spirit moves us.
This is what I saying. I refused it, but i changed my eating and yiu must choise uour cirvle wisely. No stress of any sort. Toxins of any kind is not good.
Thank you my sister, I am blessed. Sorry for your loss.
So now the Feds are involved in this investigation of drugs found at his home. If the so chose to do so, they can seize everything and hold for ‘ransom’ until the investigation is over. This means they can sell his stuff to offset costs of said investigation.
Prince music catalog finna get raped y’all!
The HIV story I dont believe at all. But the opiate/Percoset addiction is something I can see being true.
Either way, R.I.P.
Absolutely! That’s what all these lies are about.
new post – Beyoncé
If Prince was picking up HIV medication at Walgreen’s, that would never have been kept secret for this long. Somebody at that pharmacy would have leaked it a long time ago.
I was told he didn’t trust anyone to pick up his AIDS medicine because he feared his staff would talk to the media.
Hmph, did hr keep.meds in vault too? Why didnt he have them shipped? Maybe he did have that type of insurance?
one of the symptoms of thrush is flu-like symptoms.
“Also, why would PRINCE go inside Walgreens to pick up his own HIV/AIDS medication?”
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Because he didn’t trust his staff to go pick it up. He put his trust in the pharmacy staff because he thought they were bound by privacy laws.
Probably not till after the autopsy report gets released. And that’ll probably be another month or so, from what I’ve been reading.
Right, and I would also think that if he had HIV or AIDS that he wouldn’t be picking up the medication himself from the local Walgreen’s. I would think he would have the meds mailed to him or something, or have an alias.
Maybe someone destroyed it because they didn’t like what was in it? Maybe the Will was in his vault that was drilled open last week?
But they didn’t because they wanted to keep their jobs. Now that he’s dead he can’t sue.
Why do U want Prince to have AIDS so badly? Is it so U can get extra hits on your site?
Bingo…its the MEDIA
Nobody else in frenzy. I know 4 people who died recently… all younger than Prince…more shocking to me personally…but nobody lives forever.
Life goes on. But the media gonna keep dragging this on and on. I have had enough!
I agree. The HIV part I dont buy at all. On a scale of 0-100 in terms of believability, I’d rate that a 0.
If some $12 an hour clerk notices a celebrity walking into their pharmacy to pick up HIV medication… in this age of camera-phones it would just be too easy to snap a couple of pictures and leak that to TMZ or the National Enquirer. That would be a huge payday for them.
Does confidentiality end with death?!! If you know that he was fiercely private in life, his privacy should be respected in death.
Oh lord this just made me tear up at work!
A confidential source told Sandrarose.com the “Adore” singer committed suicide because he was tired of being sick all the time.___________________________________________
If this is true, can you blame him? I know I wouldn’t want to live in pain.
He was rumored to have hip problems, so I can also see him picking up pain meds and just your regular medications. I go to the pharmacist pretty regularly, so I guess I have AIDS too…
You’re correct.
He looked healthy to me too. He’s never looked sick, though I know you can be sick and not look it. But like you said, he was partying, doing concerts, and everything. He didn’t look/act like a man on his death bed. At all.
Exactly!
Oh…I know this to be FACT.
For whatever reason, this makes me think of people meeting eachother at the clinic…
Huh???
Picking up meds especially the day before, hmmm. Aren’t most AIDS patients bed ridden, and if not bed ridden I’m pretty sure they are not riding a bike and walking into no store. Besides if he was that ill taking AID meds the day before he died wasn’t going to make a difference anyway. May he RIP.
The write up here is very shameful!! The AIDS status is just based on speculation! Please let this man rest in peace! At the end of the day, he was human and he did great things for people! Let’s celebrate that! Stop dragging his legacy through the mud. For once, have a conscience!
Not only that, has there ever been a siting of Prince anywhere? I mean you can’t miss his house at some point someone would have had to see him doing something. He was just that reclusive unless he knew he was dying and didn’t care who saw what. IDK, it’s just weird.
Me too…
Probably not… would there be a reason to?
Dag everyone is trying to get their face in front of a camera or voice in front of a tape recorder.
You mean they have an ‘earthy’ taste.
Lol…
Shame on you! Hope you’ve saved enough coins before any of his family sue you for defamation! Cause I know damn well u got no proof of all these lies you spreading! When did we as society became so disgusting that we can’t let the dead rest in peace!
He Probably would not be talking because there was no reason to run his mouth, while Prince was alive. What would he have said? “I’m Prince’s chef and I made XYZ ” for him today.
My brother and sister in. Law said the same. RIP Prince!
Good question..
I’LL SAY IT AGAIN HE DIED…..THE END!!
Chef what’s your name, maybe he didn’t eat because your food sucked butt!!!!!!!! Lmbo! Let my boo rest in peace
Roasted beets are sooo good!
Nope
Wow so lucky! Then U Should be defending these blatant lies.
Prince has been celibate since he became a Jehovah Witness over 10 years ago! So tell me how does he have AIDS Sandra?
It’s so sad when a person dies all the respect goes out the window, everything is not for everybody to know.?
Nothing suggests he committed suicide. It seems as if he was trying to get better. Why would you go to a pharmacy for medication if you wanted to commit suicide?
He’s an old time performer — “the show must go on”.
that is what is so confusing
This makes me sad
But couldn’t his estate still sue them?
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Whoa. The plate was sitting in the refrigerator. That’s sad.
What the hayle?
Never heard of people getting insurmountable strength before they die? It happens.
If someone at Prince’s temple did tell him to stop taking his HIV meds, as been reported, they should go straight to you know where. That is not a JW belief!! People are living 25-30 years with HIV and their cocktails but they can’t stop taking them. It appears Prince didn’t have to die nor was it his time as some are saying. He needed better guidance. Just because he was talented doesn’t mean he knew everything.
Not only that, one site showed 6 different pharmacies he passed to go out of his way to that one. Might not have been an HIV drug but an opiate instead. It’s being reported that he also dr shopped. Addicts do that so they can get more meds.
I don’t believe he was picking up HIV meds but I do believe he had it. I didn’t at first but all the blind items were leading to him saying he contracted it in the 90s.
Also, he hated elevators, so why did he choose to die in one (if suicide) theory is true? Bed would have been more sensible. Also I hate that his eccentricities and quirks prevented him from having surveillance throughout his home. That definitely could’ve given us some insight..
Also, he hated elevators, so why did he choose to die in one (if suicide) theory is true? Bed would have been more sensible. Also I hate that his eccentricities and quirks prevented him from having surveillance throughout his home. That definitely could’ve given us some insight.
Did you finish high school? Or 8the grade for that matter??
Because she mad he didn’t ever try to joooog around in her slop jar. Matter of fact, looking at Prince’s dating history, she would not have qualified anyways….
White folks makes me siiiiiiKKKKK!
Right!
Don’t Sandra Rose look like a sharecropper or is it just me?
Sigh…
But Prince is a man.!
There are any number of reasons. He could have been in denial, he could have thought he had time. He may not have believed in wills. Since he wasn’t married and had no children, he may not have cared or thought it necessary to have one.
There are any number of reasons. He could have been in denial, he could have thought he had time. He may not have believed in wills. Since he wasn’t married and had no children, he may not have cared or thought it necessary to have one.
There are any number of reasons. He could have been in denial, he could have thought he had time. He may not have believed in wills. Since he wasn’t married and had no children, he may not have cared or thought it necessary to have one.
Actually, I think his sister is his only “full-blooded” sibling. She will probably get everything. I’m not sure how it works for “half-siblings” in probate law.
If he did have a will, one would think there would be more than one copy.
He hated elevators? I agree, a bed, a car or even a bathtub would have made more sense. It sounded to me that he was on his way to his studio to do some work and passed out in the elevator.
Lucky you I was going a connect was getting me in I actually change my flight to leave for Miami then he canceled. I couldn’t hold out any longer I had to get to Miami and get to work. It was devastating to hear that morning that he had passed. I’ve been to many other unbelievable concerts of his as well as Mj but I really wanted to see him in that smaller intimate Venue at The Fox. I was going to the UK so I could see Mj’s “This Is It” tour. Those who never got to see them perform most definitely missed a treat, a delight to the eyes, ears and the feelings and memories music brings. I’m a little Jelly. LOL
I don’t think that’s quite right. No one can sell anything while his estate is in probate; not even the Feds. Though, once probate is over, the Feds will be at the top of the list to have a check cut for any expenses they incurred.
It may be the other way around. The media is contacting anyone who got within one foot of him.
He really didn’t say anything bad just he was struggling with being sick. That’s what his people said first from the cancellation of the shows in Atlanta and when his plane was rerouted and landed in Ohio, he had been struggling with the flu for quite a while. If anything sounds like he’s saying he really was sick this is not suicide nor a overdose. He really was sick it happens. He was someone who saw him on the regular.
No he wouldn’t be talking, no reason to he would have been fired. One of Prince’s managers said Prince would be mad at him, maybe fired for talking about some of their previous conversations. Nothing he told was bad it was actually funny, showed how serious he took his music.
My grandparents were sharecroppers. They were both fine looking people.
Right I find it interesting that even he said he wasn’t going to be the person to release the music in his vault, he didn’t know who was going to do it but it wouldn’t be him. Seems like that should have been a part of a will but apparently he didn’t care or they may find one later? they said the same thing about MJ but they eventually found 2 wills. So I think the judge did the right thing.
I don’t think he had AIDS but every once in a while there are people who actually are full-blown who pass and don’t look it. That’s why I tell people please stop thinking you can look at people and tell. You have people who take their meds and they look pretty good but they still lose the battle. I worked STD/HIV Prevention for the state of GA and reported to federal. It happens more than you think, a pass church members son and a relative of mine. They didn’t look sick but they died from complications of AIDS. He had different options that others don’t. Anything can be possible but I don’t believe this either.
Well sinead O’connor posted on her verified fb acct. that Arsenio hall was Prince’s drug dealer throughout the years. I actually believe it. Still a legend though & will always be remembered as such.
Down to the ppl in the pharmacy running dey mouth smh can’t trust a soul
I didn’t say a thing about your grandparents.
Awwww? REST WELL PRINCE ?
STOP SPREADING LIES HE DID NOT HAVE HIV/AIDS YOU ARE JUST GONNA RUN WITH THIS CRAP SMH U DNT KNOW FOR SURE YOU WASN’T THERE OR IN HIS LIFE. HOW DARE YOU
money talks and BS walks…..smh
@SandraRose That’s exactly what I am thinking. Prince fought a hard and long battle for rights to his own music, why would he then not make a will to control ownership after his demise? Things are not adding up…
Or most common way, unprotected sex.