Wendy Dio recalls seeing Lemmy Kilmister’s hours before he died

Wendy Dio, the widow of the late legendary singer Ronnie James Dio remained a good friend of Rob Halford and Lemmy Kilmister, who were really good friends of Dio. She used to see them whenever possible and recalled in an interview with Rocktails that she saw Kilmister just two hours before his death.

Wendy Dio recalls seeing Lemmy Kilmister’s hours before he died

“(Ronnie), Rob Halford and Lemmy were very similar people. They chose their friends very carefully. They were just really, really cool people that loved to hang out and loved each other — very much so… And they, as I said, truly loved each other. And Rob still is amazing. He keeps in touch with me all the time. He does whatever he can for our charity. When he is out here, we go and meet up and stuff, and he’s just a sweetheart. I actually gave one of Ronnie’s rings to Rob.”

“I saw Lemmy two hours before he died. Todd (Singerman), his manager, called me and said, ‘He’s not feeling good. He hadn’t been well for a while. He’d just come off the road, like, about four months before. (Ronnie’s doctor) Sandy Kapoor was his doctor too. (Todd) said, ‘Can you bring Sandy over? ‘Cause he’s not feeling good.’ So we went over there. And he was talking away. And his birthday was (earlier) in December and this was (a couple of days later). I had bought him some old German books that I found that he was very into.”

“These were old antique books that I’d found — war books. He thanked me for those. We sat and talked for a while. And his girlfriend was there. And he said, ‘I’m a bit tired. I’m gonna lay down.’ He laid down. I left, I went to the mall. I was walking around the mall. Todd called me and said, ‘(Lemmy) just passed.’ I couldn’t believe it. I walked around, around in circles. I didn’t know. It was just unbelievable. I was just talking to him, like, two hours before. It was horrible,” Wendy Dio said (Transcribed by Blabbermouth).

Lemmy Kilmister died on December 28, 2015 at this home in Los Angeles at the age of 70. Reports say the causes were prostate cancer, cardiac arrhythmia and congestive heart failure.