Bt Ashleigh Gray, Daily Mail | Former Prince collaborator Alexander O’Neal and his wife Cynthia O’Neal were rushed to the hospital on Friday morning following a fire at their Minnesota apartment. It seems the origin of the blaze could be attributed to the 72-year-old singer-songwriter’s oxygen tube, according to an account from Cynthia.
Alexander’s wife told TMZ she noticed ‘a bubble of fire’ in the cord of the oxygen machine after he woke her up in the middle of the night to alert her of the emergency.
The star, who was hired by Prince in the early 80s, had recently been released from the ICU after a nearly two-week stay for bacterial pneumonia and an enlarged heart.
There was also a separate fire on the floor, which Alexander tried stomping out, burning his bare foot in the process.
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