Daughter Meat Loaf: at home he was just daddy | Stars

entertainment">At home, the singer had an active role in the lives of his daughters. He directed plays at their school and coached their softball teams. “If we didn’t get good grades, we got house arrest and things like that,” Aday sums up. “We didn’t have a crazy life there like we had when we went on tour. He thought it was very important that we were at home at home.”

entertainment">Where the singer of hits like Paradise by the Dashboard Light in I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That) passed away has not yet been announced. According to Aday, her 74-year-old father’s health deteriorated very rapidly. So she rushed to Nashville with her sister to say goodbye to him. “We sat by his hospital bed and held his hand,” she says, adding that she is “very grateful” that she was with him before he passed away.

entertainment">Plans for a memorial service have not yet been finalized. “But we hope we can keep it and we plan to send out a lot of invitations to people my father loved and respected and who would hopefully like to be there.”

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