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Son of BB King calls sisters’ poisoning accusations “extreme”
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 1 June 2015
BB King’s son Willie has said that claims made by two of his sisters that their father was poisoned are the result of misplaced anger about his death last month.
Speaking to the NME, Willie King said: “There are always – I don’t want to call them this, but – there’s always a rotten apple in the barrel. Sometimes you can take hurt, and turn it into something that it should not be. And I think out of the anger of losing their dad, they went to the extreme”.
“I pray that the public don’t really accept them as an angry person like that, because being my sisters, they are not like that”, he continued. “But sometimes you just don’t know how to express yourself. And you jump out at the nearest person. And they attacked the wrong person”.
As previously reported, Karen Williams and Patty King accused the musician’s business manager, LaVerne Toney, and his personal assistant, Myron Johnson, of murdering their father. Police stated that there was no active homicide investigation ongoing, and that they would await the results of an autopsy before taking further steps.
BB King’s funeral took place on Friday.
