Brian McKnight’s estranged son Niko McKnight has died, simply two years after he was recognized with most cancers. He was 32.
The information was shared by Niko’s uncle, Claude McKnight, in a three-minute video posted via TikTok. Claude acknowledged that he wasn’t certain if he needed to deal with Niko’s passing.
“I’m not going off the script or something like that. I’m simply gonna be uncooked with how I’m feeling,” he stated. “Niko was a type of superb children who was quirky and curious and ridiculously proficient.”
“Superb singer, an incredible guitar participant, had an ideal eye as a photographer. He was a type of children that, at the very least in my estimation, was any person you at all times needed to be round. And so it actually sucks that he’s now not with us,” Claude continued.
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Claude additionally stated he doesn’t usually “submit a whole lot of actually, actually severe topic issues or actually household issues” however that “ I needed to submit this about Niko, about his legacy, about how superb he’s — and never about what a few of you could have heard about, you understand, the household drama that has existed for fairly a while in our household.”
“This isn’t the time of the play, however what I’ll say is, in any state of affairs there’s at all times at the very least three sides to a narrative. There’s my facet, your facet, and the reality. And the reality, a whole lot of instances, is someplace in between,” Claude defined.
Sadly, he added, the dynamic remained the identical within the household till Niko’s loss of life.
“So right here’s the factor. I don’t know precisely what was occurring there. I do know what I’ve seen. I do know what I’ve heard from all events concerned. I strive to not decide. I simply attempt to be as loving to every individual as I will be as a result of apparently there’s a lot damage occurring, or was a lot damage occurring, that a whole lot of issues didn’t get resolved,” Claude added.
“And once more, I need to return to Niko. I do know that child had lots inside, lots consuming at him for a protracted, lengthy, very long time. I could have contributed to what occurred with him. What I do know is he’s out of ache now, and so I can rejoice in the truth that he now not has to undergo the chemo and the radiation and all the pieces else. I simply need to uplift that younger man and say we are going to see him once more at some point,” he concluded.
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Brian shared Niko along with his ex-wife, Julie McKnight. At one level he and his brother Brian McKnight Jr. carried out because the group MCKNIGHT, however in recent times their father has acknowledged his relationship along with his sons is “estranged.”
Months after Niko revealed his most cancers prognosis in January 2024, the elder McKnight referred to his 4 older kids (he and Julie additionally share son Clyde and daughter Briana) as a “product of sin” in a video shared on Instagram.