“Knocks the Wind Out of You”: Charles Barkley’s 66YO Best Friend Divulges Devastating Reality After Series of Heartbreaking Losses

The feeling of loss is the same for everyone. It doesn’t matter if you are a common man or a wealthy star, losing a loved one affects everybody the same way. Recently, Charles Barkley and his best friend delved into discussing the topic. While Chuck had his stories of struggles to share, the 66-year-old talked about the series of devastating losses he has had in recent years.

The 60-year-old NBA veteran has been through several ups and downs in his life. Be it in his career or personal life, Barkley has dealt with everything and has managed to live through it all. However, his friend and co-host had a different story to share which is heartbreaking, to say the least.

Charles Barkley’s friend explains the stages of grief that he goes through

The duo of Charles Barkley and Ernie Johnson host The Steam Room podcast together. The tone of the show is often light-hearted and the two discuss basketball and things around it. However, in the last episode of season 4, the duo started off with serious discussions. Chuck began the show by giving words of advice to Ja Morant and Zion Williamson who have been criticized recently. Later in the show, the conversation reached even deeper as the duo discussed the death of a loved one and the impact it has over one’s life.

In one of the show’s segments where the hosts take fan questions, one fan asked about how to deal with the loss of a family member. The 11x NBA All-Star asked his co-host to answer that question. Johnson lost his son, his mother, and his sister in a very short span of time. He said, “It’s a lot in a short time. What I’ve realized is that I’m not trying to get over it.” Johnson said that he is simply trying to deal with everything with the realization that it is going to be tough for him.

He then explained what it is like losing his son Michael, and the things that remind him of his son.

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“Michael used to love it when I would laminate pictures of cars for him,” Johnson said. Now when his son is no more, every sight of the things Michael loved brings back waves of sadness to his life. Johnson said, “There are times I’ll be in a store, and I’ll walk past a display of these new laminators, and it knocks the wind out of you.”

Getting to the original question that was asked, he said “There’s no answer …It’s like from one day to the next, you know, we’ll get there,” Johnson concluded.

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