“It was just like he’s gone and he’s gonna die, that’s it,” LeeAnn Jemmott said in an interview. “I don’t even know how I felt, I just felt like I was going to die. Now, instead of the ventilator supporting him 100 percent, it’s supporting him 70 percent. We need him like he is our strength, he is our good vibes, our positivity. Don’t just assume they are going to die. Because that’s all we are hearing is people dying, dying, dying. He’s winning, he’s winning.”
He ultimately passed away just over two weeks later. He was 35.