Funeral Services are Confirmed for R&B Chanteuse Vesta Williams

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Funeral Services are Confirmed for R&B Chanteuse Vesta Williams

Vesta Williams funeral services has been confirmed by the family

Funeral Services for singer Vesta Williams will be held at West Angeles Church of God in Christ 3045 S. Crenshaw Blvd. (North Campus), Los Angeles, California Tuesday, October 4, 2011.

One of her former producers has come forward to admit that Vesta was depressed and was on medication. The producer of Vesta Williams’ David Crawford first single recently shared with us his last conversation with the late singer in which he says she revealed a struggle with depression and that she was taking medication to treat it. 

“She said that she was seeing a therapist because she had been depressed,” says David Crawford, a music industry veteran who produced Vesta’s first single “Once Bitten, Twice Shy.” “This last conversation she really did sound depressed. In fact, her speech didn’t seem to be clear, and she said, ‘If I’m slurring my words it’s because of the pill she was taking for her depression.’”

Williams was found dead of a possible drug overdose at 6:15 p.m. Thursday in an El Segundo, Calif. hotel room, Los Angeles County coroner’s Capt. John Kades said, adding an autopsy will determine the cause of death, and a toxicology examination will take six weeks to be completed. 

Crawford said Vesta had initially called him about two weeks ago requesting that he participate in her upcoming episode of TV One’s “Unsung.”

“She said ‘I’m going to call [the producers] right now and have them call you, but I had never heard from them, so I don’t know whether that happened or not,” he said in a phone interview on Sunday (Sept. 25). Crawford said he called her back days after that initial phone call to discuss an idea for a gospel song he wanted to produce for her. 

“In the last conversation, she was a little more open about how she was doing and that’s when I found out she was actually living in El Segundo at a hotel and she was saying how tough things were,” he revealed.

Crawford said he never asked what was making her depressed because he didn’t want to pry. “I thought at the time I would eventually get the whole story. I just didn’t want to push.”
In the audio below, Crawford reveals more of her last conversation with Williams – including her declaration that she is drug free.

Audio: David speaks about VESTA!

Well I guess at any rate it’s safe to say that now Lady Vesta is no longer suffering and truly at PEACE! Sleep on songbird and THANKS for your contributions to the R&B Industry!