NBA player Karl-Anthony Towns revealed sobering news Wednesday, when he announced that his mother has been hospitalized and placed under a medically-induced coma after suffering COVID-19 symptoms.
In a video shared to Instagram, the 24-year-old said that his mother, Jacqueline Cruz initially fell ill last week and then her symptoms “kept getting worse.” Towns said his father was also hospitalized with symptoms, but was later released and told to quarantine himself.
The Minnesota Timberwolves player said his mother, who was also put on a ventilator, “was telling me things I didn’t want to hear.
I dismissed some things she was saying because it wasn’t something I wanted to hear.” “It’s very difficult for me and my family, to say the least.