According to a bombshell new book on her life, R&B singer and actress Aaliyah didn’t want to board the flight that cost the rising star her life.
After remaining silent for decades, an eyewitness has alleged that the singer was given a sleeping pill and carried – unconscious – onto the suspect aircraft before her fatal 2001 crash in the Bahamas.
The shocking allegation was dropped in a new biography, Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah, by music journalist Kathy Iandoli.
“They took her out of the van; she didn’t even know she was getting boarded on a plane,” stated Kingsley Russell, 33, who was with Aaliyah – full name Aaliyah Dana Haughton – just before the fateful flight, the Daily Mail reported. “She went on the aeroplane asleep.”
The then 13-year-old Russell, whose family ran a taxi company in the Abaco Islands, was in the cab as his mother drove the five-time Grammy winner and her team to the airport for their return flight to Miami.
The 22-year-old Aaliyah had just wrapped shooting the music video for her hit single Rock the Boat, and her team was eager to get back to the US.
However, Aaliyah – who was an anxious flyer – allegedly had reservations about boarding the aircraft after learning that it was overweight. The pilot had reportedly explained the aircraft would be too cumbersome with eight passengers, including Aaliyah’s 136kg bodyguard, as well as their bags and cameras, the Daily Beast reported.
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