R&B singer and actor Tyrese Gibson announced the passing of his mother Priscilla Murray on Monday night.

The singer shared the heartbreaking news via his Instagram account in an emotional 38-second video while inside the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

“On behalf of my family and everyone who ever spent anytime praying tor my mother This is the saddest moment of my life………. My sweet Valentine just passed away…..” the caption read under a video of him holding his mother’s hand.

“May the lord Jesus Christ and his angels open the doors of heavens and embrace her………. We as a family are broken and just can’t believe this……. May the lord Jesus Christ honor your walk with him and embrace you into the heavens……. From here on I ask that you HOLD MY HAND MOTHER and never let my hand go………. Like you held my hand as a child and a teen never let my hand go mother…..” he concluded.

An almost disconsolate Tyrese struggled to restrain himself from breaking down while expressing assurances at his mother’s bedside to always keep her memory alive in all things he does going forward.

Miss Murray was placed in an induced coma last week, while she battled pneumonia and COVID-19.