KARL-ANTHONY TOWNS: How I Survived the Hardest Year of My Life

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COVID protocols allowed only one visitor, and the family chose Karl. He arrived in a hazmat suit, fixed his mother's hair, cleaned her nails, washed her face, and talked to her — even though she couldn't respond. ^{[1] — Karl-Anthony Towns "Towns was the only family member COVID protocols allowed to enter the hospital to say goodbye to his mother. He fixed her hair, cleaned her…" 24:07 Play} He felt the energy of the exchange nonetheless. And in those final moments, he finally had the conversation he and his mother had never gotten to: he told her about Jordan, a friend who might be more, and asked his mother to look out for her from wherever she was going. Seven years later, they're getting married. 'Obviously,' Towns says with a quiet smile, 'it was the right one.' Shetty then asks about the decision to end life support. Towns says he tried every other route — he would have taken her in any condition. But when a meaningful recovery was no longer possible, he made the call. He frames it as choosing 'the death of my ego for the best of her.'