In February 1995, Eazy-E’s friends noticed that he was suffering from a persistent cough. Eazy, who assumed he had asthma, went to see a doctor and was shocked to learn that he had advanced AIDS. Almost immediately after, he was hospitalized in the ICU.
Shortly before he died, Eazy was interviewed by his publicist, Phyllis Pollack, and it’s noted that he spent much of the time coughing. Speaking to Forbes, DJ Yella said that Eazy tried to keep his diagnosis a secret. “[Eazy] just didn’t want me to know,” he said. “I don’t know if he was embarrassed or what … He was talking normal all the way up until the day he had surgery. They put him in an induced coma after that.” He noted that Eazy had lost a significant amount of weight, but attempted to hide his struggles from those around him.
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Dr. Dre told BigBoyTV that Eazy was in high spirits when he last spoke to him. But just two weeks later, Eazy was receiving end of life care. Although Dre visited Eazy in hospital, he was unable to converse with him one last time as he was unconscious. “He didn’t know I was in the room,” he recalled. “He was on life support, you know, so I just reached down and whispered a few words in his ear.” At the time of his diagnosis, Eazy’s girlfriend, Tomica Woods, was pregnant. Accordingly, the couple got married when he was dying in hospital.
