Megan Thee Stallion has opened up about the pain she faced after her mother, Holly Thomas, passed away from a brain tumor in 2019.
In her new Prime Video documentary, Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words, the 29-year-old star recalls the heartbreaking period when her mother, 47, experienced ‘back-to-back seizures,’ leaving her ‘in shambles.’
“They had to put her under. She was just brain dead,” Megan says in the documentary, which features poignant animation for some sequences, including her mother’s death. “So I stayed up there every day. I was spending the night at the hospital. I just was praying that she could shake back from it.”
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Unfortunately, the singer’s mother, Thomas, was not able to recover from her health issues.
“Once I realized she wasn’t coming back, I was just like, ‘Damn, I can’t keep her like this.’ Because I know she wouldn’t have wanted to stay like this,” Megan recalls through tears. “So I had to make the decision to pull the plug, and she just passed the next day.”
Despite her heartbreak, Megan returned to the stage just three weeks later, knowing her mother, Thomas, would not have wanted her to stay at home feeling sad, as reported by PEOPLE.
“Ya’ll know that 2019 has been really tough for me. I don’t wanna cancel none of my shows, and I didn’t want to stop going, because that’s not what my mama would want me to do,” she says from the stage in a documentary clip. “She was my number one fan, through all the ass-shakin’ and cussin’.”
Despite her resilience, it was challenging for Megan—who had also lost her father, Joseph Pete Jr., in ninth grade—to move forward without her biggest source of support.
“When my mama passed away, I think I really forgot who I was and I lost a lot of confidence,” she says. “I was so used to my mama telling me what to do and when life started getting crazy I didn’t have her.”
At the Los Angeles premiere of her documentary on Wednesday, October 30, Megan honored her late mother, Thomas—who also performed as a rapper under the name Holly-Wood—with a heartfelt shoutout in a special speech.
“I wouldn’t be the woman I am today without Holly Thomas,” she told the crowd. “So mommy, I love you.”
Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words follows the star’s journey “on the road to stardom as she tenaciously navigates fame, grief, pressure and success,” according to a synopsis. “The documentary unpacks Megan’s most vulnerable moments in a powerful way that allows fans to meet the real Megan Pete.”
