Toni Braxton’s 24-year-old niece died of a heroin overdose and fentanyl intoxication, according to autopsy results released by the Maryland Medical Examiner’s Office.
Lauren Braxton, the daughter of the singer’s only brother Michael Conrad Braxton, Jr., passed away on April 29. Her tragic death was originally linked to a heart condition. But an autopsy shows that drugs were the cause of Lauren’s death, WENN.com reports.
Following Lauren’s passing, Toni, 51, took to Instagram to share a photo of herself with her late niece, writing: “R.I.P to my amazing niece Lauren ‘Lo Lo’ Braxton. I’m still in disbelief and so very heartbroken. Love you always auntie ‘Te Te’.”
Toni’s sister Tamar Braxton, 42, also opened up about Lauren’s death in a post on Instagram Live, revealing she was feeling too “drained” to attend her funeral – a decision which drew rebuke from many of her fans.
“Get..your a*s up and go to the funeral for 2 hours then get back in your bed. I’m not hearing this excuse,” one IG user angrily responded.
Toni’s sisters Towanda, 45, and Trina, 44, also paid their respects to Lauren on social media.
“Lauren Kristine Braxton. Umba loves you so much! You were a beautiful loving angel on earth .. now you are a beautiful angel in heaven,” Towanda wrote, while Trina wrote, “God sent me another angel! Rest in Heaven Lauren ‘LoLo’ Braxton.”
Photo by Derrick Salters/WENN.com
Damn.
I wonder if her family knew she had a problem. Idk what’s harder to wrap my head around someone in their early 20’s getting high or someone that waits until they’re in their late 40’s/50’s to start getting high.
shame
Dam shame.
You never know….The young woman probably hid her use from the family, otherwise, they would have gotten her help….IMO.
The devil is busy getting folks hooked on these opiods.Terribly sad. RIP young lady.
I have a friend whose dad is a decorated veteran. He retired and has been addicted to crack ever since. He is like 80.
Its not the Devil.
I didn’t know crack was still an option..
He is in Oakland. It’s there.
This should not be shared with the world, this is just like TI sister Precious. The celebrities family shouldnt be subject to the scrutiny of the world and they didnt choose that life. RIP.
Sorry to hear that.
In those instances it makes sense. I understand why veterans and people that experience traumatic events to turn to drugs. But, I’m talking about your every day regular person… I mean we all know what drugs do. Imagine someone asking you do you want to try heroin or meth at your age now.
Both situations are sad. None is better than the other.
Figure of speech.
these young folks don’t like Reefer??? i love it and won’t try anything else!!!!
7 whole days without a word from you. 7 whole nights
Tamar didn’t go to her own niece’s funeral….what a selfish bish. Yes, this has got to be heartbreaking to relive it all over again because we really didn’t need to know….she wasn’t in the spotlight like that.
Just stick to weed folks…..
Memba when they use to claim weed was a gateway drug? Gateway to where?… Gateway to sleep that’s about it. I’ve never desired to try anything else. Never…
My brother didn’t go to my cousin’s funeral, he was too wrecked and depressed. I can understand. I don’t go to funerals unless they are very close members, and then sometimes I don’t go and send flowers.
I can understand.
Remember when they said weed makes you crazy and makes you become a criminal? ?
It is so difficult to lose loved-ones to natural causes. It’s gotta be devastating to lose them to something senseless and preventable.
It’s sad but they don’t want a weed high. They want high that is out of this world, a galaxy high. Weed and crack was all we could afford back in the day. Everything is so relatively affordable and at young people finger tips. Now everything is laced with synthetics, they truly don’t understand the dangers of that sh$$.
Not da Christian Braxtons?????? #Shocked (Said no one) https://media2.giphy.com/media/ckltH3WWaHuSUAgIZE/giphy-downsized-medium.gif Tracie get far away from that Klan ……… they are thee exact same as the Kardashians cept dey Black ……..
All that was because the great jazz artists were getting blowed and the Mexicans were bringing it in….campaign on drugs was created to mass incarcerate people of color plain and simple.
Folks know the risks when using heroin and don’t give a damn. If folks are hell bent on killing themselves, let them. We should know better particularly after still dealing with the devastation of the crack epidemic.
Hell I remember when it was a gateway to a good snack!
Funerals are for the living. Everyone doesn’t need to attend them to get closure. Folks should be more selfish when it comes to their mental and emotional well being, we’d be a lot better off.
Yep. The war on drugs was truly just a war on black people, allowing the government to massively incarcerate our men and destabilize the black family/communities.
Subjective….IDC…..you go to show your respect and support to the family especially her grieving brother….she is a selfish heaux. periodt
Who or what is it then?
Naw. There are other ways to show respect. It’s good to protect your own peace and If folks can’t grasp that then fawk them. ?????
Heroine seems like such a downer how can you have fun on such a dark drug but to combine in with Fentanyl sounds like a recipe for disaster. It’s a pity how nothings private anymore she was from a famous family but we didn’t need the details of her autopsy in my opinion. RIP
There are safe psychedelics one can take to get that “spiritual, deep high.” Mushrooms, for example. Hell, Colorado just decriminalized that.
Colorado wants all the drug tax revenue and I don’t blame them.
This bish ain’t protecting ish….she said she was “drained” that ain’t got shat to do with shat….WTF….you can’t be more drained than the parents of a deceased child….I said what I said….she is also the same sister who sat and pouted when her sister was being proposed to because it was still “her” bday weekend….this bish is a nut and self centered….
This is just sad. We all have done crazy things when younger and not think nothing of it.
I remember wanting to pop a Molly so bad when I was younger. I have an ex tell me how good it felt to be on it and blah blah. I tried it once and it wasn’t for me. But that couldn’t turned left and I got hooked on it. Thank God I didn’t and I only tried it once.
Sometimes a death can be hard to accept and going to thir funeral is harder. I took my sister’s death so hard and going to her funeral harder. I needed therapy and is still in therapy to overcome the hurt and pain I feel for my sister not being here. We don’t know what death does to a person, so let’s try to be understanding to their pain.
I can understand IF that were the excuse listed….it only said DRAINED….or am I reading a different post? She didn’t said she was wrecked or depressed, sad,,,etc….why yall reading more into it other than what she actually gave as her reason?
Smh!!! Heroin is a very obvious drug how on earth did NO one detect this young girl was in such inner turmoil that she had to turn to hard drugs?!? Smh. Very sad ?.
Summer solstice. #sacrifice
A gateway to my refrigerator ?
And what you said was ignorant. You can’t dictate how folks should react to death and what support from them should look like.
Again, she said she was “drained” not that it was difficult or hard but that she was drained…just like I’m feeling right now reading all these comments about something she didn’t say….now if you tell me we can define her “drain” as anything….then ok…..define as you see fit….Imma stick with her being selfish…until she states otherwise
That’s a state that gets it
Kinda reminds me of the new show called Euphoria staring Zendaya. Those kids are on heavy, heavy drugs. Then they turn into full fledged addicts by the time they become adults.
Mike Jr is a nurse. So I know he feels horrible that he couldn’t save his daughter…
RIP Lauren
No its not…you trying to spin being drained into something else…..I’m going by what she actually said…
Being “drained” is not a positive emotion.
…I have so many questions!
When pure weed stop getting you high it’s time to quit. That’s a nice looking young girl too smh . These kids on everything now. Soap, laundry detergent, bleach, hair dye weed pills cough syrup coffee and drugs.
I’m saying if I wanna get flucked up I just smoke a blunt and drink a big bottle of wine. I be just as flucked up. I don’t understand the need to do all that other shyt.
Although part of me wants to try coke just ONE time to see how it feels. But I have an addicted personality. I’d be sucking dyck for coke after one snort. I’ll just live vicariously through the tv.
Reach for the STARS!!!! You almost there! Keep reaching! https://media3.giphy.com/media/4TvCD9mwggxrB84bNF/giphy.gif
I had to reread the title. Sandra, you almost gave me a heart attack. This is why reading is fundamental. I feel bad for baby girl, if she was suffering in silence. Kids do drugs every day and it goes unnoticed but her dying from an overdose makes me wonder if anyone detected it. And sometimes dealing with an addict, you can’t stop a person. My brother was on drugs before the age of thirty and he was just trying new stuff that the weed man gave him. He started liking it. And my cousin has been on drugs for twenty years and no one could get to her, she leaves for a long period of time, then comes back. I pray for anyone with a family member on drugs.
Amen!
Right her damn daddy a whole ass nurse. How he didn’t see the signs…
You are so right. It’s scary. My sister had some kind of pills that had angels on them. She offered me one, I almost beat the brakes off of her.
It’s laced.
Oh, wow. So sad.
Fail.
omg I saw that picture and half of the header and almost passed out. RIP to Toni’s niece
Well damñ, lol! ?
This highly upset me as a mom of a 24 yo. Same age as this young lady. RIP Lauren. So damn sad.
This title almost took me out! I was about to say NO, NOT MY TONI! TAKE TAMAR INSTEAD LORD!
Maybe that’s why Tamar didn’t want to go to the funeral. Maybe she wasn’t proud that her niece was a dope fiend in real life. That’s a lot to see and accept. Especially with her being so young.
The trailer made me click off. I said nope and turned on big little lies instead
I didn’t go to my aunt’s funeral earlier this year. She was in the hospital before she passed at home. She was requesting the family to come see her. I prayed about going, because I hate hospitals. God gave me a peace in my spirit, so I traveled back home to go see her. I held her hand so tight while I sat on her bed and prayed. She made me laugh as usual. She was still the crazy auntie I loved so much. Before leaving I kissed her forehead and told her I loved her. That was my last time seeing her. Mentally, I did not have the strength to travel back home to go to her funeral. I said my last goodbye before she left.
But her father said she died due to complications from her heart condition. This is so tragic to me especially since Fentanyl is what killed my beloved musical idol Prince.
LOL
Either that, or she made peace with the fact that her niece was an addict and that she brought her death on herself. I tell people all the time, in life, you will reap what you sow if you don’t get help, some people don’t want help. And when they do, it’s too late.
I cannot STAND Tamar. HOWEVER…she stated this was the FIRST close relative she has EVER had to pass away and was too devastated and drained to go. Not just drained. And Im sorry. I love my nieces (and nephews) to damn it pieces. I dont think I could handle if they left prematurely either. Back up off of how folks GRIEVE. Its not always public. Had she done it publicly some woulda been hollering its a private process. She in private and folks mad bc it wasnt public. STOP BEING WEIRD AF
He’s her father and he has to believe whatever he has to believe to protect his memory of her.
Why put Toni’s picture under that caption??!!!! I can’t read that fast. I nearly had a heart attack.
Its good. Zendaya does a great job. The whole supporting cast is great. The show is really really really graphic though. They don’t shy away from nothing. Full dyck shots. You got a daddy who like to fluck underage transsexuals. A transsexual teenager looking for love. High school interracial relationships. Its got it all.
After watching I’m scared af about my girls going to high school. It looks like a damn nightmare.
Gateway to the munchies…
Yep.
Towanda was on Rick and Sasha morning show a few weeks back and said Tamar was at the funeral, she gave the excuse of Tamar daBaby and has never really dealt with tragedy well. So she probably was drained. My grandma died in April and I still aint right.
So sad. Yes it can be your decision to try it, but heroin is very addictive & a lot of people get addicted from 1 try…It makes you sick & you have to have it or you go through real physical painful withdrawals. So sad for this young lady. The devil & the evil people of this world are working OT right now.
Definitely so. My cousin has been on drugs for twenties years. It is only by God’s grace she is still alive. We always hear about her overdosing and being passed out. God has to be with her because people we’ve known for years have died from overdoses.
God Bless her she was so pretty smh…These kids be so mad at their lives they out here taking opiods to mask their pain…Im seeing this too often in my city…we got a whole neighborhood in Philly for these new age crackheads…
So sad??
Well watching your Granny and Aunts tell all their business on television is enough to drive a person to the unthinkable. But seriously it is ashame and everyone in the family knew she was a junkie…there is no way she was doing fentanyl and herion and no one notice. My nephew in law past last summer from the same thing…cardiac arrest after an overdose.
I’m sorry but ?
You aint right! ???
Me too!!
On a serious note….whats up with the kids and the overdoses? Have anybody else notice how kids these days are so drawn to a depression type of life like its a fashion trend? You know what in my head, I answer my own question. The difference I see with kids of today and kids of yesterday years (I’m will be 33 on Saturday , so my generation and up) is that we weren’t so technology mind f&ck. We actually went outside and played….actually enjoyed the nature. Nowadays kids are so phone/ social media crazy that it has effect their mental balance. To the point, most of them are all off balance. You not telling me nothing…..(all jokes aside) its the Enfamil. I encourage all new mother to breast feed your babies because they have done some to the milk that got these kids are way off balance than normal mentally.
Wow, very sad to here.
Hugs you. Baby mine died in 2004 and I still aint right all the way. I get it.
Hopefully TMZ is not hounding them and they deal with the truth and grieve in peace. I was confused on if the last celebrity’s family member really died from drug related issue.
You could be on to something and yes, they are glued to this new age of technology. I am older than 33 but my kids aren’t into the facebook,twitter craz. I must of done something right, I have great kids and very blessed. (They are 22 and 32)
LOL!!! I know
I’m fine with a drink or two you can miss me on the weed
*hugs* to both of you. I lost both of mine in 2006 less than a month apart and I ain’t been right since. Prolly won’t ever be right again.
You know what!!! lol
I didn’t want to, but that list did make me giggle
Thank you hugs
Thank you Hugs
Im so SORRY. This happened to my baby girl. Lost one grandparent in August 2016 (her granny, her dad’s mom) and then my dad passed few months later so her Papa in Jan 2017. 5 Months apart. It was so bad for her. I was scared. *hugs you*
To be honest, I think its the lack of nature vitamin D from the sun (if I had the resource and time, I really would do hard research on this matter). My oldest son use to just be game overload until cut his access to my wifi for gaming (experimenting). He resulted back to going outside and playing, acting like a human child. The results were that he seem he had life back in him verse being a zombie to this new age technology. Its something. I just hate to seeing kids overdosing like its normal. Thats is not normal at all. Y’all do me a favor, hug your kids for me and tell them Auntie Nu said she love them!!!
And I oop….. All these truths coming out!
People that made a poor choice and won poor prizes. Being junkie is a choice
It was rough but we got no choice but to keep on goin. Got to honor them and they wouldn’t want it any other way!
“Just Say No!’
So many people are trying to mask the pain by using drugs. ?? to all involved.
Sorry for your loss.
They are trying to numb the pain. But drugs are not the answer. Especially hard drugs.
Keep the same energy y’all had when this came out about ti sister I don’t know why families don’t just put it out there it’s gonna come out in the wash
They need to bring this back. It is the first thing that popped in my head. Our instructor growing up didn’t play.
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Yeah. They r sad. They have the right to be, the world is still as effed up as ever.
Maybe THATS why Tamar wasnt pressed to go to the funeral… The family possibly knew
RIP
Heart complications = overdose. (e.v.e.r.y.t.i.m.e.)
drug abuse is real. Most think it’s a party.
party party party yolo fomo & all that jazz
condolences
i thought u couldnt report on the family of celebrity ???
Yes! & Tamar strikes me as just the type to not have time for the funeral on these terms.
weed ?? weeeedddddd ? ol girl died from that dog food !!!
Lol
Sounds like an ecstasy pill. I wish somebody’s would offer me some mess like that. You done crossed the line offering me drugs. Ion even like to take ibuprofen for too long.
Kensington…
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Damn! She was on the HARD STUFF! so young… I wonder how she got on such hard drugs at such a young age. RIH baby girl.
Fentanyl. People become addicted to prescription opiods and when they no longer have access to that, they turn to heroin, which is an accessible street drug that acts on the same receptors in our body as opiods. Same high.
Fentanyl and heroin are poor white trash drugs….
Prolly from the company she kept
Heroin! Come on now. Why even try it! Guaranteed to ruin your life or kill you.
Have you read any of the Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda? Just reading the book about his experiences using mushrooms is so other worldly that it is a natural high.
Heroin addiction is hard to hide but I knew someone who was a functioning heroine addict. No way you could tell he used anything except cigarettes.
That must be tough on your friend. At his age the withdrawal symptoms from trying to ween off might be just as bad as using.
Suicide that what taking those drugs are akin to
Exactly
so sad! why are these young people using heroin? I expect this from Caucasian youth.
He LIEDDDD
I once had a patient who developed sores and had to get her foot amputated because she was boiling down her fentanyl patches and shooting it up.
My first boyfriend at 19yrs try to commit suicide when I wanted to move on with a better life. I felt like ish since he took 80 speed pills but he survived ( long,long story). So, when I went back to help him through his therapy I learn to be empathetic. So I know all this is hurtful for the Braxton’s when it’s a family member.
Whew, listen:
Back in my experimental years I learned the hard way that shrooms are NOT for everybody…that shat right there is NOT like hitting a joint, blunt, or bong! Yo ass is loaded for HOURS upon HOURS, upon HOURS, and it’s an emotional roller coaster! Laughing hysterically one minute, in tears the next, seeing and hearing weird shat – NO THANK YOU!
Just gimme some good indica, a nice bottle of wine, and I am GOODT. https://media0.giphy.com/media/VIoW7Fncu19GKDrQsX/giphy.gif
Condolences to The Braxtons. Loss of a family to addiction is a hard loss.
I barely take aspirin or Tylenol. That girl was about to make me catch a case! She thought it was cute.
Thank you for telling us how this young lady really died. It’s not fair to give the impression a 24 year old just up and died for no reason. Can we please stop doing that for the sake of saving face?
Sis was on drugs and that day they got the best of her, costing her-her life.
Fentanyl is a scary drug.
I’d have to be terminal to even think about taking it.
Smh… these kids is going through it. Someone below mentioned technology…I agree…. it gets a hard side eye from me.
One of the saddest things to me is to see empty streets in a neighborhood on Saturday mornings….I LIVED for Saturdays man…. would play until I had not an ounce of energy left to do anything besides take it on back to the house.
Exactly
Damnnnn ?
Amen and you are right on that.
My ex was smoking heroin… he was 28… his homie was smoking it… I stay in Atlanta… I know if they were no telling who else is…
Apparently NOT!
Prolly from her aunt’s.. look all the dayum surgeries these days celebutards be having them BOUNCIN back there in a day… They on some HARDCORE DRUGS… FOR OUR THEM UP ON PEDALSTLE AS OF THEY ARE NOT LIKE EVERYDAY FOLK.. PULEASE.. THEY HAVE ACCESS TO EVERYTHING. AND THE KIDS BE SNEAKING IN THE ADULTS STASH.
So sad!!! Heartbreaking.
I thought it was just me….
Drugs are never the answer. When you come down off that high, the same problems that you had is still going to be there.
Cot damn!
Girl bye…give it a rest. You have your opinion and some folks disagree. The bigger question is why are you so pressed and argumentative about what some bish you claim not to like said?!?
damn…RIP…so sad…so young.
And worse
Kids can’t try heroin now a days, it will kill you.
I would never try it anyway
But in the 70/80/90’s you could experiment
Those days are over
That’s insane!!!
No it’s everyone
Kids are doing everything these days
This
Not anymore
Chile its like The Walking Dead over there!!! They just found someone dead under the tracks last week…people kept walking past and finally someone took notice and saw they were dead…Zombieland smh…
IKR I can’t remember the last time I seen girls jump rope. Or play a game of kick ball or relay race, nope girls to worried about sweating out their weaves and boys sitting in front of the TV playing video games. smdh I have said it before and I will say it again I am sooooooo glad I am a 70s baby because I would NOT want to be raised in this day and age.
You can only imagine how deadly it is, when greed is so prevalent, and making money as fast as you can without any conscience is the norm!
If your kids go the the best schools, average schools, around affluent young people, you have to be concerned!
I used to drive pass this methadone facility, early Saturday mornings, and the young people I saw standing, waiting in line didn’t look like poor minority addicts, but well-heeled and clothed addicts!
It could have come from some black friends who helped get her started, but her own personal pain was the root-cause!
Peace and Blessings to her family and friends!
Lol very true. Black ppl should definitely be concerned about these affluent neighborhoods and schools. Sometimes these areas are just as dangerous as the urban inner cities. Drugs, gangs, overt racism/sexism etc…. but it’s all hidden behind the wealth and prestige of its residents.
Chile I’m afraid to smoke weed ? mfers are straight lacing sh*t for profit.
I’m an 80s baby and I did all of those things too – playing outside until the street lights came on etc – and I do see kids outside playing (much to my annoyance cause I’m usually trying to sleep!! Lol), I just think it depends on the parents. Cause now a days parents give kids a choice lol, I had no choice lol I wasn’t allowed to sleep past 9am ?, and I could only come in the house to go to the bathroom or to eat lol otherwise my parents did not want to see me until the evening! Lmao
Black ppl are becoming affluent and moving into these yt suburbs so now we’re inheriting their problems ?. Instead of being leaders, they’re following after the yt crackheads and addicts.
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That sounds so depressing. My first instinct was right – I turned it off.
If Toni/Tamar’s career soars then we’ll know it was a successful sacrifice.
Lmfao!!!
Colorado decriminalizes everything ?… if it wasn’t so dayum yt and expensive I’d move there lol
“Drained” is sometimes the only way that they can characterize feeling depressed. Everyone deals with death differently. I could barely pull myself together to go to my grandmothers wake. And she was like a 2nd mother to me… the grieving process can be very intense for some ppl… and then you wanna be strong enough to console your relatives, that look up to you… it’s just such overwhelming experience. Not everyone can cope with it.
Toni , 51 5+1=6
Tamar, 42, 4+2=6
Niece, 24 2+4=6
Ritual sacrifices
Numbers don’t lie.
I have a few friends that will not attend funerals, and I don’t judge them for it. I grew up attending plenty of funerals so it was no big deal.
I totally understand Tamar not attending and no one should be forced or judged for their decision.
This family has soo much death suddenly. Still not over Gabe’s passing ?
Rotflmao
I know I’m in the minority, but I believe life is often much harder for whites! I’v met so many “poor little rich girls” and what ails them, people can’t relate!
Then so many whites live below the poverty line, in rural cities (esp. White Appalachia), trailer parks (the projects) with little industry in abject poverty, so they self-medicate with oxy, meth, heroine, etc.
Their “peer pressure” or standards of beauty eliminates the masses!
We love us some weed, blunts and alcohol! The crack epidemic ran its course, whereas the opioid/heroine/fentanyl epidemic is gonna be like ending slavery!
What happened 2 to ti sister? I thought she passed away from a car accident…