Colt Ford performs during the Take It Outside Tour 2016 at Lakewood Amphitheatre on Friday, August 26, 2016, in Atlanta. (Photo by Robb Cohen/Invision/AP)Robb Cohen/Invision/AP
Just days after asking his fans to pray for his father, Colt Ford returned to Instagram Wednesday with heartbreaking news.
‘This video was hard to make,” the country music star said in a video posted to his profile. It was a blessing to have my add for 89 … he was 89-years-old. He got to see me play in Athens with Brantley and that made him so happy. I’m so grateful for all the prayers, but last night he went home to be with the Lord, and I’m at peace with it.”
Ford thanks his fans for their support.
“Thank y’all for all your prayers and wishes,” he said. “He passed away right there in his house that he loved with my mama on one hand, married 62 years, and my son, Reynolds, on the other hand. His grandson that he thought hung the moon, and he just eased off.
“God bless y’all.”
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Ford has made plenty of headlines across the past year after he dropped dead — he actually died twice and was revived each time — following a show last April. But he was on social media last Friday asking fans to divert the prayers they have been sending him to his father.
“FaceTiming with My Hero My Dad,” he wrote on Instagram while sharing a photo that showed him eating a popsicle while talking to his father, who was in bed and obviously connected to oxygen. “Y’all say some prayers for My Dad not doing to well. Thank yall for all the one’s for me if ya don’t mind give em to Him.
“I Love Ya Coach keep fighting.”
Fans flooded his responses with praying emojis and encouraging words.
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