Jordyn Woods gifts beau Karl-Anthony Towns a portrait of his late mother Jacqueline… one year after the matriarch died of COVID-19 complications
Jordyn Woods has movingly gifted her NBA boyfriend Karl-Anthony Towns a portrait of his late mother Jacqueline.
Jacqueline succumbed to COVID-19 complications at the age of 58 last April after spending 19 days on a ventilator and being put in a medically induced coma.
The portrait Jordyn gave Karl-Anthony has a touching inscription on the back: ‘TO MY KING WHO WAS RAISED BY A QUEEN! I LOVE YOU – JORDYN.’
So sweet: Jordyn Woods has movingly gifted her NBA boyfriend Karl-Anthony Towns a portrait of his late mother Jacqueline
Karl-Anthony tweeted pictures of the portrait and the inscription on Saturday and wrote: ‘Love you babe. Thank you.’
During her life Jacqueline could frequently be seen at her son’s games while he played for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
A family statement last April said the ‘matriarch of the Towns family’ had been ‘battling the virus for more than a month’ before she died.
Karl-Anthony’s father Karl Sr. also contracted the novel coronavirus last year but fortunately was able to recover.
Respect: The portrait Jordyn gave Karl-Anthony has a touching inscription on the back: ‘TO MY KING WHO WAS RAISED BY A QUEEN! I LOVE YOU – JORDYN’
‘Thank you’: Karl-Anthony tweeted pictures of the portrait and the inscription on Saturday and wrote: ‘Love you babe’
However others in the basketball player’s inner circle were not so lucky and he has lost a total of seven family members to the disease.
‘I’ve seen a lot of coffins in the last seven months,’ the NBA star shared during an interview with ESPN this past December.
‘Last night I got a call that I lost my uncle. I feel like I’ve been hardened a little bit by life and humbled,’ he explained.
Early in the pandemic before his mother’s death Karl-Anthony announced he was donating $100,000 to the Mayo Clinic to help them step up COVID-19 testing.
So supportive: During her life Jacqueline (right) could frequently be seen at her son’s games while he played for the Minnesota Timberwolves
Hot couple: Jordyn’s latest heartwarming gesture comes shortly after her family had to put the kibosh on rumors that she and Karl-Anthony are engaged
Jordyn’s latest heartwarming gesture comes shortly after her family had to put the kibosh on rumors that she and Karl-Anthony are engaged.
The conjecture took off when Jordyn was pictured on her Instagram page wearing a massive ring on her left hand.
However her mother and manager Elizabeth Woods assured TMZ that the bauble was just on for a photo-shoot.
Rumor mill: The conjecture took off when Jordyn was pictured on her Instagram page wearing a massive ring on her left hand
Jordyn shot to fame on social media as Kylie Jenner’s best friend but a rift formed between her and the Kardashian-Jenner clan back in 2019.
Khloe Kardashian’s boyfriend Tristan Thompson shared a kiss at a party with Jordyn the weekend after Valentine’s Day that year.
The ensuing scandal prompted Khloe and Tristan to break up although they have since reunited after self-isolating together with their daughter True, two.
Mother-daughter duo: However her mother and manager Elizabeth Woods (left) assured TMZ that the bauble was just on for a photo-shoot