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Mother of ‘Tears in Heaven’ Inspiration Shares Story


Mother of ‘Tears in Heaven’ Inspiration Shares Story

Source: ABC News
Entry published on 9 September 2006

Eric Clapton's song "Tears in Heaven" captures the grief and heartbreak the singer-songwriter suffered after the loss of his four-and-half-years-old son, Conor.

Now, 15 years later, Clapton's former girlfriend and Conor's mother is sharing never-before-seen video of the child who inspired the song.

Conor was just four-and-half-years-old when he fell 53 stories from an open window. He was living with his mother in New York City.

"He went in this room, opened the door," said his mother, Lory Del Santo. "As soon as I entered the room and I see the window. Where can he be?"

For the first time, Del Santo talked extensively on camera about the heartbreaking events of that day to international interviewer Daphne Barak.

Full story at ABC News