The iconic Richard Pryor, as we all know, lived through quite the dramatic life, ALL his life- from childhood until into adulthood. The circumstances he revealed about how his dad died at the age of 57 is just as dramatic and equally bizarre.
Richard Pryor often discussed what it was like being raised in a brothel that his grandmother owned and his mother worked in as a prostitute. Then there was his father, Leroy Pryor, who was his Momma’s pimp and employed several other prostitutes at that same brothel young Richard Pryor called home. Well needless to say, Richard Pryor’s father died in just as shocking of a manner in which he lived. Pryor explained what exactly happened at the time of his dad’s death…
RICHARD PRYOR’S DAD DIED DURING A SEX ACT
Pryor revealed how his father died at the age of 57:
“I’d like to die like my father died,” he says. “My father died fucking…he DID! My father was 57 when he died. The woman was 18. My father came and went at the same time. […] I just figured God must’ve loved my Father an awful lot to let him go out like THAT.” – Richard Pryor Yep you read that right, Pryor’s dad sadly passed away in the middle of sexual intercourse and Pryor actually turned his pain into laughter when he incorporated his father’s death into his timeless stand-up concert in 1992, “Live In Concert.”
Like we said earlier, the late great Richard Pryor lived quite a dramatic life and from the look of it, his beloved parents did the same. May they all continue to rest peacefully.
