Christian Singer Reveals the Last Text His Son Sent Him Before His Death

TobyMac is opening up about his son’s death. Six years after the Christian singer‘s son, Truett, died of an accidental drug overdose, TobyMac spoke out about the last text he received from his kid.

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“I was telling him I thought he did a great job at his first concert that he performed… I changed a flight to get to go to it. He played at a place called The Factory in Franklin,” TobyMac told People. “And the last text he sent me, I don’t know why this moves me so much, but he’s like, ‘Dad, you’ve always made me feel like a superhero.’”

That message, TobyMac said, “moved me to my core.”

“That’s the way you should make your kid feel,” he said. “And I’m not giving myself any props. I’m just saying, ‘Thank God I made him feel like that.’”

TobyMac continued the interview by discussing who Truett was, calling his son “the biggest personality in our family.”

“He was always grateful to us, always saw us, never discounted us,” he said. “I’m so grateful for that. There wasn’t a distant relationship. Sure, we had rubs, he was a wild child… God loves the wild ones. And I believe that with all my heart.”

TobyMac’s New Album

In the wake of his son’s death, TobyMac released Life After Death, an album on which he sang about his grief. Now, the singer has put out another EP, Heaven on My Mind.

“It’s walking through this and getting to a point where you can breathe again and live again,” TobyMac said of his March 7 release. “And still grieving deeply, but gaining a footing to where you can throw your fist up in the air and say, ‘I’m going to live. I’m going to live to honor God… and to believe, but also to honor my son.’”

In an interview with Billboard, TobyMac reflected on the difference between his two most recent albums.

“My last record was just facing things no one should have to face… the deepest, heart-crushing you could ever have in losing my first-born son, but I felt like this record was me gaining my footing a bit,” he told the outlet. “Realizing, ‘OK, I can breathe, and I can get my fist up in the air about things I believe in.’”

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