LONDON (AP) — Winnie Mandela says she feels "very blessed" to have been with ex-husband Nelson Mandela when he died, describing how she sat by his bedside until he drew his last breath.
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She spoke to Britain's ITV news about the pain of losing Nelson Mandela, saying that "one never prepares for death" and describing the "heavy feeling" surrounding his passing.
"I went close to him and I noticed he was breathing really slowly. I was holding him trying to feel his temperature and he felt cold. Then he drew his last breath and just rested. He was gone," she said in an interview broadcast Thursday. She told ITV the most difficult moment of the past week was when the military came to remove Mandela's body and she realised "he was leaving the house for good". Read more:
may his soul rest in peace.
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