Queen Latifah has talked about keeping her mother Rita Owens’ memory alive, nearly three years after losing her following a long battle with autoimmune disease scleroderma.
The 50-year-old singer-actress spoke to People on Wednesday as she shared that despite no longer being physically here, her mom and her ‘still talk,’ all the time, as she described her omnipresence.
‘I know it’s going to sound crazy, but I get little signs,’ she shared, while gushing over her mom’s indelible impact on her life.
In her heart: Queen Latifah, 50, spoke to People about keeping her late mom Rita Owens’ memory alive in a new interview, saying that they ‘still talk’ regularly and that she gets ‘little signs’ from her, nearly three years after losing her to scleroderma
While filming her show The Equalizer in her home state of New Jersey, the place seemed to conjure up emotions and memories of Rita – a crucial pillar of support throughout her career.
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‘She was always an encouragement. Everything queenly about me came from my mother,’ she said, the death being very hard on her.
