After their father’s death, Meat Loaf’s devastated daughters Pearl Aday and Amanda Aday paid respects to him via Instagram.
Pearl (47) posted a photograph of herself holding him, and said: I love you always. Your love is all my heart. Your support is our priority. Forever.’
Amanda, 41 years old, posted a collection of photos of Amanda and her husband over the years. She wrote, “I Love You Dad Always and Forever.”
With both his girls: Meat Loaf’s heartbroken daughters Pearl and Amanda Aday paid tribute to him on Instagram after his death Thursday aged 74
Meat Loaf’s real name Michael Aday was his married first wife Leslie. They had three children together.
Leslie was the father of Pearl, but Meat Loaf adopted Pearl. He and Leslie had Amanda a few years later.
Pearl became a singer as well and married Scott Ian. Scott Ian rose to prominence in Anthrax’s rhythm guitar section.
Meanwhile Amanda became an actress, appearing on such programs as Carnivale, My Name Is Earl and Rizzoli & Isles.
‘I love you with my whole heart’: Pearl, 47, posted a picture of herself hugging him onstage, writing: ‘I love you always, no matter what’
Bereaved: Amanda, 41, uploaded an album of pictures of the two of them through the years and wrote: ‘I love you daddy always and forever’
The singer died after a struggle with COVID-19, with TMZ sources saying his condition rapidly deteriorated to critical after he became sick with the virus.
Meat Loaf was vocal against coronavirus restrictions, against mandated vaccines and for endless vaccinations. However it’s not clear if he ever got vaccinated.
Pearl posted on Instagram two weeks prior to his death that COVID-19 had been contracted by some of her “friends and families”.
Amanda shared his story on Facebook: “Pearl, I and his closest friends were in a position to support him and give him love and care during his final hours.”
She added: ‘Thank their respect for science that they’re all vaxxed, otherwise they’d be way worse,’ without mentioning her father specifically.
Amanda posted on Facebook that he had died: “Although it was sudden, his passing was not unexpected. My sister Pearl and I were able be there holding his hand and pouring love upon him in his last hours.
As she reflected on her grief, she said: “I will have many more words to say in coming days. At this point, I’ll just tell you that he was larger than life. I’m going to miss him everyday for the rest my life.
Amanda remembered her father side by side.
Tributes poured in from friends and colleagues for the late musician, who once called himself a ‘fat motherf***er’ while discussing his weight loss to MailOnline.
Susan Sarandon, who appeared with him on The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), was the one that sent in memory.
‘Big man, big voice, big heart. In my experience, always a gentleman,’ she said in a statement to People magazine. “Condolences” to his family.
‘Bless my soul’: One of the in memoriam messages came from Susan Sarandon, who starred with him in The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1975