John Amos passed away on August 21, but his daughter, Shannon Amos, is just finding out about it now.
The 57-year-old raised questions about her father’s death in an Instagram post on Oct. 1, just hours after her brother, Kelly Christopher “K.C.” Amos, revealed the death in a statement shared by several outlets.
“It is with heartfelt sadness that I share with you that my father has transitioned,” K.C. said in the statement. “He was a man with the kindest heart and a heart of gold… and he was loved the world over.”
In her Instagram post, Shannon said she was “without words” after receiving the “heartbreaking news” that her father passed.
“We are devastated and left with many questions about how this happened 45 days ago, learning about it through the media like so many of you,” she wrote, sharing a video of her dancing with her late father.
Amos died of natural causes in Los Angeles, according to his publicist. He was 84 years old.
While this should be a time of “honoring and celebrating his life,” Shannon says she’s “struggling to navigate the wave of emotions and uncertainties surrounding his passing.”
“My family and I deeply appreciate the outpouring of love, calls, and texts. Please continue to hold our family in your thoughts and prayers,” she said, adding that there’s peace knowing Amos “is finally free.”
After posting the update on Instagram, Shannon took to her Instagram Story to repost nearly a dozen tributes that were shared by fans, friends, colleagues, and family members.
Later that night, she raised even more questions about her father’s death with a series of posts on her Story, including one that confirmed Amos “died alone without family.”
“Someone was in the ER the night my father died and pretended to be his daughter. I’m his only daughter,” she wrote. “We believe it was Belinda Foster, the woman also posing as his publicist.”
She then responded to a comment from someone who claimed their daughter was “working in the ER the night that he passed” and was confused why it took the family so long to announce the death.
Shannon wrote: “Because that wasn’t me. I’m his only daughter and that woman was lying. We only find out today with the rest of the world.” In a text overlay, she added that “something is very wrong with this.”
Like many father-daughter relationships, Shannon had her ups and downs with her father, but they loved eachother dearly through and through. And that was evident in one of Amos’s final interviews.
“That is my daughter, my first child. I love her,” he said of Shannon in an interview with PEOPLE last year.
That statement came a few months after Shannon accused an unnamed caregiver of “elder abuse and financial exploitation” against her father. She also claimed that he was in the ICU fighting for his life.
Amos denied those claims in a video from a hospital bed with his son in the room. He then accused Shannon of “elder abuse” and refused to accept money from a GoFundMe account she made for him.
While the family appears to have moved past that, Amos’s untimely death is now raising more questions.
In K.C.’s statement sharing the news, he said his father “lived a good life” and “his legacy will live on in his outstanding works in television and film as an actor.”
