Robert De Niro’s daughter stated she felt her son’s “fixed presence” whereas visiting the Pope in Rome two weeks after 5 folks have been arrested for allegedly peddling fentanyl-laced opioid tablets that killed the 19-year-old.
“I could by no means discover the phrases to explain the fullness in my coronary heart,” Drena De Niro wrote in a heartfelt put up devoted to her son Leandro De Niro Rodriguez on Instagram Sunday, following a visit to the Vatican along with her A-list father and brother, Julian De Niro.
Drena highlighted their assembly with Pope Leo XIV, which she stated was an expertise she would maintain along with her for the “remainder of my days.”
“To face in His Holiness’s presence and aura in a room stuffed with a lot love and kindness is an honor that may stick with me for the remainder of my days,” she wrote.
Drena went on to share that throughout the journey, she felt the spirit of her “little Leo” with them.
“My little Leo has been showering us with so many indicators of his fixed presence this whole journey,” the actress wrote.
“His love for his household, his mischievousness, his playfulness ..my mantilla falling off each time his Holiness got here close to me (I nearly felt him knocking it off and laughing as I silently freaked out and saved placing it again on my head).”
She described how His Holiness confirmed “heat and kindness” when he “accepted my small token of reverence and affection, asking that my son stay in his presence and style.”
“I used to be given this blessing not solely in my Leo’s reminiscence, however in acknowledgment of all of the younger lovely lives which have been taken too quickly,” Drena stated.
Drena ended her message with a heartfelt notice of religion and love for each her legendary actor father and son.
“I’m so shamelessly stuffed with gratitude to my household right here in Rome, my dad, my darling Julian, and all who made this attainable,” Drena wrote.
“With love and gratitude at all times to the two most divine Leo’s I’ve ever met, might everyone knows your peace, larger energy and mission in the future.”
Leandro De Niro Rodriguez died from an unintentional overdose after taking tablets that have been laced with fentanyl.
The famed actor’s 19-year-old grandson was at a buddy’s downtown Manhattan on July 2, 2023, when he swallowed a potent fentanyl tablet and suffered a deadly overdose.
Late final month, 5 males — Grant McIver, Bruce Epperson, Eddie Barreto, and brothers John and Roy Nicolas — have been busted for allegedly peddling hundreds of pretend tablets to unsuspecting teenagers and younger adults throughout New York Metropolis and are suspected to be a part of a prison crew that offered De Niro’s grandson the deadly tablets.
They’re additionally suspected of promoting medicine that killed 19-year-old Akira Stein, the daughter of Blondie guitarist Chris Stein, regulation enforcement sources stated.
The crew would promote the medicine on social media, concentrating on teenagers and younger adults on Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, and Telegram, the feds stated.
Sophia Haley Marks, an alleged drug seller generally known as the “Percocet Princess,” has been individually charged with being the one that offered De Niro Rodriguez the tablets he overdosed on.
Marks, who was charged in 2023, allegedly purchased medicine from the crew and resold them to others, together with Leandro De Niro Rodriguez.
