Chef Antonia Lofaso Opens Up About Heavy D’s Death and the Ironic Life Lesson It Taught Her

Chef Antonia Lofaso Opens Up About Heavy D’s Death and the Ironic Life Lesson It Taught Her

Chef Antonia Lofaso – Heavy D – Antonia Lofaso interview – Antonia Lofaso opened up about how her late partner Heavy D impacted her career as a chef during an appearance on Bobby Flay’s podcast.

“He was more instrumental in my life in the way of teaching me how big someone could actually be in life,” Lofaso said on the Monday, March 2, episode of Bobby on the Beat.

Lofaso recalled the Heavy D & the Boyz frontman encouraging her when she was at the very beginning of her culinary career.

“He was very instrumental of being like, ‘You keep saying that you want to do this thing, just go do it,’” she recalled.

She continued, “I was basically in the presence of someone who had this greatness about them of no pause. You just go do the thing. Like, who cares if you’re scared? None of that matters. What do you want? Be the best at it. And I was, like, almost overwhelmed by that kind of talk at such a young age.”

The Food Network star remembered the rapper predicting that she would be on TV one day.

“He saw it in me,” she said. “And he also said, ‘Why don’t you see it in you?’ And also, ‘Why aren’t you working towards that every single day?’”

Lofaso said he pushed her in a way that almost “started arguments” between the couple.

“In my mind, I was like, ‘Why are you being so critical of me?’ And he’s like, ‘I am your best friend,’” she added.

Lofaso and Heavy D share a daughter, Xea Meyers, who was born in 2000 and is now 26. The rapper died at age 44 in 2011, when Xea was a preteen.

The Tournament of Champions winner, 49, then reflected on how the rapper’s death impacted her outlook.

“One of the things that we used to argue about all the time is that he always felt like everything that I fixated on was, like, very petty,” Lofaso remembered. “He was like, ‘You’re young. And the truth is, you fixate on these things because you’ve never lost anyone at a young age that sort of changes the way that you think and the way that you look at life.’”

Antonia Lofaso on ‘Bobby on the Beat’.

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Lofaso said at the time she was “so offended” by the remark.

“I was like, ‘So, someone I love has to die in order for me to understand how life works.’ And he was like, ‘Yeah.’ And he ended up being that for me, which was like the most ironic, wild thought.”

During an interview with PEOPLE in October about her appearance on Sin City Rehab, Lofaso said not a year goes by that she and Xea don’t think about Heavy D.

“Every birthday, every holiday,” she said, adding that “there isn’t a second that goes by no matter how many years ago that there isn’t something that’s remembered or talked about.”

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