Sir Puppet Master

Zilla Fatu opens up about the heartbreaking moment he found out his father, Umaga, had passed away when he was still just a child. "I was at school, man. And uh when I was at school, usually you have something called early dismissal, and they get on the intercom and they would say your name and say, Hey, man, they have to come to the front office. You usually my mom or my dad tells me, Hey, so I'm going to come pick you up early dismissal today or tomorrow.But no, I don't remember my mom, my uncle, or my dad telling me. Soon as I got the early dismissal, I went to the office and I seen my uncle just with his head down. He didn't tell me like what happened or anything. He would just say, Come on, let's go. We have to go pick up your brothers.And at that time, my brothers was in high school on a varsity football uh team. And we went there, went to the high school and picked them up in the middle of their practice. And uh the coaches was, you know, confused. I remember my uncle was like,No, we have to go. We have to go.But in my head, I'm like, Why why are we where are we going? I remember just us going home and he was like, Man, pack a small bag.And I'm like, Oh, what is this for? He just said, Shut up. Just pack. Let's go. I got my stuff, got in the car, and uh I just remember going to sleep and waking uh I didn't think I didn't think, you know, anything of it. I I just thought, "Okay, my dad's probably hurt."