Ice-T Reveals His Father-In-Law Has COVID-19 After Refusing To Wear A Mask

Posted on December 3, 2020

He was “close to death” for 40 days.
Ice-T has a message for his followers: Take the coronavirus pandemic seriously.
Taking to his Twitter account, the rapper and actor shared a cautionary tale about his wife Coco Austin’s father, who he says refused to wear a mask in public, and is now fighting for his life after catching COVID-19.
“My father-in-law ‘Coco’s dad’ was a serious ‘No Masker’ COVID hit him. Pneumonia in both lungs.. 40 days in ICU close to death.. Now he’s on Oxygen indefinitely,” he captioned a picture of his father-in-law Steve Austin wearing an oxygen mask. “Ohhh he’s a Believer now..#COVIDisNotAGame.”
The Statesville Record & Landmark reports Steve Austin lost 30 pounds while battling the deadly virus in an Arizona hospital. They confirmed he was on an oxygen machine at the time.

NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 28: Rapper Ice-T attends the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Madison Square Garden on January 28, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for NARAS)

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