2021年5月17日 · Angela Bassett is raising awareness of the devastating illness that took her mother years ago. The award-winning actress, 62, lost her mother, Betty Jane, in June 2014 to heart failure. Her mother had Type 2 diabetes and Bassett said their family didn't see the "wolf at the door" in her health battle.

Ten months after Bassett was born, her mother became pregnant and had a second child, Bassett's sister D'nette. Bassett said the pregnancy "only made things harder", leading her parents to send her to her father's sister, Golden, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

2021年5月17日 · Angela Bassett is raising awareness of the devastating illness that took her mother years ago. The award-winning actress, 62, lost her mother, Betty Jane, in June 2014 to heart failure. Her mother had Type 2 diabetes and Bassett said their family didn't see the "wolf at the door" in her health battle.

2014年6月26日 · ST. PETERSBURG — Betty Jane Bassett, mother of film and television actress Angela Bassett, died Sunday. She was 78.

2024年5月25日 · Years before actress Angela Bassett became an award-winning Hollywood fixture, her mother was dead set on raising her children to succeed. Bassett grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida, where...

2021年5月17日 · The “Black Panther” star lost her mom in 2014 to heart failure and has since partnered with the American Heart Association to promote education around the disease.

2019年5月30日 · Bassett's mother passed away from heart disease as a result of diabetes. She wants people to be aware of how one condition could lead to the other.

2014年6月22日 · Daughter of Leroy & Emma Jean Stokes Gilbert. Mother of actress Angela Bassett.

2019年10月2日 · Angela Bassett may have lost her mother to congestive heart failure in 2014, but the matriarch’s memory lives on in the heart of her famous daughter. The 61-year-old Black Panther star said Betty Jane Bassett, who also suffered with Type 2 diabetes and other ailments, made her into the woman she is today.

2014年6月27日 · Betty Jane Bassett, mother of actor Angela Bassett, died Sunday. She was 78. Bassett raised her daughter, one of the city's most famous exports, in St. Petersburg, and in interviews the actor...