“We don't call it prevention,” he said. “We call it early intervention for a reason, because if you start implementing healthy changes and conversations in the home from a young age, really listening to your kids and being there for them, being physically, emotionally, spiritually present for your kids … that's all your kids want.”
One day, Angel said, when he's the right age he'll tell Prince “the truth, that Aaron was a happy soul and a good person.”
And he knows that his nephew will one day learn the most disturbing truths about his entire family. “That's just a fact,” he said. “But I hope he sees how important mental health is and the vital work we're doing to create these healthy conversations, and he sees the lesson in it all.”
Ultimately, Ángel added: “I want to show the children in my family—my daughter, my nieces and nephews—that these moments don't have to define you.”
Instead, they have many happier memories to look back on. Watch some of the family's best moments.
