Cole Swindell opened up about his latest heartbreak in a tragic Instagram Story posted on September 13 when he confirmed his mom, Betty Carol Rainey, had died, eight years after his dad, William Keith Swindell (via Taste of Country). The singer shared a photo of the sun shining through the clouds as he looked down from the sky.
"Took this on the flight home to Georgia this afternoon. Lost my sweet Mom today," he wrote on the image. "I know she's up there. Gonna miss her so much. Love y'all," he added, with a praying hands emoji. Her cause of death doesn't appear to have been made public.
Cole made it clear he was close with his mom on multiple occasions. He told PopCulture in 2019 that she was "the one that keeps me humble" and "the one that, no matter how stressed out I get, if I wanna be here or wanna be there, she is always the first person to remind me, 'Come on, Cole. Think about it. Me and you would have never thought you'd be where you are right now.'" Cole noted that his mom was always there to put the good things in life into perspective for him, and she was also on hand in 2014 when he celebrated his first number one single.
We're wishing Cole and the whole of the Swindell family the best at such a tragic time.
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