Meat Loaf remembered by daughters Pearl and Amanda following death at 74 after COVID-19 struggle

Meat Loaf’s heartbroken daughters Pearl and Amanda Aday paid tribute to him on Instagram after his death Thursday aged 74.

Pearl, 47, posted a picture of herself hugging him onstage, writing: ‘I love you always, no matter what. I love you with my whole heart. We got you. Forever.’

Meanwhile Amanda, 41, uploaded an album of pictures of the two of them through the years and wrote: ‘I love you daddy always and forever.’

With both his girls: Meat Loaf’s heartbroken daughters Pearl and Amanda Aday paid tribute to him on Instagram after his death Thursday aged 74

Meat Loaf, whose real name was Michael Aday, shared his children with his first wife Leslie whom he was married to for about two decades until 2001.

Leslie had Pearl from a previous marriage but Meat Loaf adopted her. A few years later, he and Leslie conceived Amanda.

Pearl grew to become a singer herself and also married Scott Ian, who shot to fame as the rhythm guitarist for Anthrax.

Meanwhile Amanda became an actress, appearing on such programs as Carnivale, My Name Is Earl and Rizzoli & Isles. 

‘I love you with my whole heart’: Pearl, 47, posted a picture of herself hugging him onstage, writing: ‘I love you always, no matter what’

Bereaved: Amanda, 41, uploaded an album of pictures of the two of them through the years and wrote: ‘I love you daddy always and forever’

The singer died after a struggle with COVID-19, with TMZ sources saying his condition rapidly deteriorated to critical after he became sick with the virus.

Meat Loaf railed against endless coronavirus restrictions and against vaccine mandates but it is unclear whether he himself was vaccinated.

Two weeks before his death Pearl wrote on Instagram that some of her ‘friends and family’ had contracted COVID-19.

After his death: Amanda wrote on Facebook that ‘Pearl and I along with his closest friends were able to be with him holding his hands and showering him with love in his final hours’

She added: ‘Thank their respect for science that they’re all vaxxed, otherwise they’d be way worse,’ without mentioning her father specifically.

After his death Amanda wrote on Facebook: ‘Although his passing was very sudden, my sister Pearl and I along with his closest friends were able to be with him holding his hands and showering him with love in his final hours.’

She continued: ‘I will have much more to say in the the coming days as I process through my grief. For now I will just say that he was simply larger than life and I will miss him every day for the rest of mine.’ 

Side by side: Amanda memorialized her father: ‘For now I will just say that he was simply larger than life and I will miss him every day for the rest of mine’

Tributes poured in from friends and colleagues for the late musician, who once called himself a ‘fat motherf***er’ while discussing his weight loss to MailOnline.

One of the in memoriam messages came from Susan Sarandon, who starred with him in The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1975.

‘Big man, big voice, big heart. In my experience, always a gentleman,’ she said in a statement to People magazine. ‘Condolences to his family.’ 

‘Bless my soul’: One of the in memoriam messages came from Susan Sarandon, who starred with him in The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1975