Hey everybody, AJ Benzi here with Fame is a bitch and this is your, well it's not,

it's not your typical daily unfiltered show. In fact, it's not even going to be a whole show.

It's just something I needed to do to inform you guys where things are right now

with my family because you've all known I've been very emotional the last week or so and that

was because my nephew Jackie was in the hospital with complications from diabetes and stomach ulcers and

you know he just was having a rough time and he was released from the hospital Saturday I

believe Friday and Saturday night he called Rosalie in terrible pain and he was sobbing he was

in so much pain and she she begged him to go to the ER go to an urgent care you know just go

don't worry about your dog don't worry about whatever the fucking cost just go

I don't want to wait seven hours for a room that kind of shit and we hadn't heard from Jackie for 24

hours and that's not like him he is a 51 year old man but he talked to his mom twice a day

and if Rosalie was your mom you would do that too so when he didn't respond to our calls and our

texts and I had friends if his reach out to him the only thing left to do is do a welfare check

that's something you don't want to ever have to do so we got the Hollywood police

to go to his apartment and we after talking to two of his friends we managed to find the number

of the building manager who lives in the building Jackie lived in and he called us back

when he called us back the cops were already on scene and I was there when they

informed my sister that her son has died I mean it's

I'm you know I'm not myself I'm numb

we're all out of sorts nothing feels right watching TV laughing in a comedy or anything

nothing feels right my sister's son has died that's my nephew that's uh

when he was born I was nine years old that was a nonchalant nine years old I mean we took

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