Drena De Niro is coming for trolls spreading lies about her son Leandro‘s dying.
As we’ve been reporting, the 19-year-old grandson of Robert De Niro tragically died from an unintentional drug overdose when he was offered fentanyl-laced drugs. Since then, the NYPD efficiently named a suspect within the case — Sofia Haley Marks.
Naturally, the household remains to be mourning the completely devastating lack of their beloved Leo.
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On Wednesday, the 51-year-old mom took to Instagram to clear the air about her son’s passing. Within the passionate caption, she wrote:
“Thanks for the outpouring of affection and understanding that we’ve acquired over the dying of our beloved Leandro. Nonetheless there’s been plenty of misunderstanding and misrepresentation of information that I as his mom cannot sit by and never communicate up about.”
She requested everybody to be “respectful” as she shared her “expertise and opinion”:
“I want to maintain the feedback open in respect to our pals, our pals and others who’ve misplaced their children to this illness and others who may get some form of consolation from this and need to share however idiocy and imply spiritedness gained’t be tolerated because it’s too delicate and painful of a scenario for myself and Leo’s family and friends. Please maintain it respectful it’s simply an expertise and opinion.”
Within the submit itself, a carousel of text-covered white pages began off by slamming the trolls who unfold “vicious, inaccurate” lies about her son’s dying:
“For the reason that circumstances of my son’s dying have taken on a story and lifetime of its personal, pushed by vicious, inaccurate hypotheses and conjecture by means of trolling and randoms who don’t have anything higher to do than unfold vitriol and ache to people who find themselves already managing greater than their share of heartache, I’ll say what I can about this.”
Detailing Leo’s expertise with the medication, she stated he didn’t have any “data” he was taking “fentanyl laced substance”:
“Firstly Leo was not forewarned to anybody’s data (significantly yours) that he can be taking fentanyl laced substance. He was warned to “not take too many” of the counterfeit drugs he was being offered and to “watch out with these” however that is very totally different than warning {that a} substance is the truth is deadly or higher but not promoting all of it.”
She stated folks have been “inserting blame” on her son for utilizing medication within the first place — or Robert due to his large platform as a well-known actor:
“I see that many individuals really feel it’s vital to put the blame on my son for utilizing the medication, to me as his mom for being harm, shocked and offended on the sudden lack of my solely youngster and even on his grandfather, whom many appear to assume, possesses a direct connection or affect on how the U.S borders are operated. Now I do know there isn’t a technique to cause with stupidity or ignorance however I’ll say that so long as we maintain blaming the addict and particular person struggling psychological sickness we’re going to proceed to see extra of this.”
So unhappy! This isn’t Robert or Leo’s fault… and blaming the household for an accident like that is simply terrible!
Drena went on to say her son “suffered tremendously” through the pandemic. She additionally reminded her followers she and her household are “solely human” and to double-think earlier than making a hateful remark:
“My son suffered tremendously by way of the pandemic as possibly lots of your children had however sadly habit took over within the final 12 months and finally killed him. If you determine to touch upon folks’s misfortune and loss not less than actually take into consideration the emotional and psychological fragility of the folks you’re attacking on-line. We’re all human beings in the long run. Neither I, my household, nor my son requested to be public tabloid fodder for trolling that’s simply what we have now to take care of on high of a paramount loss.”
The Metropolis By The Sea alum made a degree that pointing blame on anybody isn’t serving to the scenario, as fentanyl “chooses who it chooses” and it “will get within the palms of too many individuals who distribute it”. Wrapping up her prolonged assertion, she prolonged her like to those that undergo, or have family members who wrestle, with habit:
“My coronary heart, prayers and alliance is with anybody who’s struggling the lack of the their youngster or beloved one to this nightmare of habit and fentanyl overdose or suicide. Hopefully the publicity his very unhappy dying has garnered will deliver consideration to a a lot larger drawback and to all the opposite lovely younger lives which might be being snuffed out method too quickly and senselessly. I additionally hope his passing will assist deliver extra empathy, understanding and help to households and people who find themselves battling psychological well being, suicide and habit.”
Learn Drena’s full submit (under):
Shortly after her assertion, the daughter of the A Bronx Story actor shared a candy tribute to Leandro for his birthday — he would have turned 20 on Friday. She wrote:
“You’ll have been 20 yrs previous right now
Thanks for the happiest and most profound 2 a long time of my life ,little angel. I hope you might be at peace and your spirit is crammed with pleasure right now and all the time.”
Ch-ch-check out the candy throwback pics (under):
Simply heartbreaking. We proceed to ship love and light-weight to Drena, Robert, and the remainder of their household and family members. Could Leo relaxation in peace.
[Image via Drena De Niro/Instagram]
