Grant Wahl’s brother says he ‘agreed to a divorce from the love of my life’ hours before journalist died
In a series of tweets Friday, Grant Wahl’s brother said he had gone through another life-altering moment several hours before the journalist died.
Eric Wahl said he “agreed to a divorce from the love of my life” last Friday.
“In the span of a few years, I watched [Grant’s wife] Celine’s father die on a gurney, my mother died, my mother-in-law died, my father died; last month I had to put down my 19yr-old cat. Last Friday, I’d agreed to a divorce from the love of my life, & later that day, my brother died,” Eric tweeted Friday.
Eric initially suspected foul play in his brother’s death. Grant had previously been blocked from entering a stadium while wearing a rainbow shirt.
Just a day before his death, Grant Wahl published a scathing criticism of Qatar’s government and the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, asserting indifference to the deaths of workers who built the World Cup stadium.
“The Supreme Committee in charge of Qatar’s World Cup doesn’t care that a Filipino migrant worker died at Saudi Arabia’s training resort during the group stage. He suffered a fatal blow to the head during a fall in a forklift accident (information that was kept under wraps until being broken by The Athletic’s Adam Crafton).”
AMERICAN SOCCER JOURNALIST GRANT WAHL DIES WHILE COVERING FIFA WORLD CUP IN QATAR
“I am gay. I am the reason he wore the rainbow shirt to the World Cup,” Eric said. “My brother was healthy. He told me he received death threats. I do not believe my brother just died. I believe he was killed, and I’m just begging for any help.”
Eric recently walked back his original suspicion, and it was determined Grant died of a “slowly growing, undetected” ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium, a New York City medical examiner autopsy found, according to Wahl’s wife, Dr. Celine Gounder.
Fox News’ Timothy Nerozzi contributed to this report.
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