Frankie Lons, BET reality star and Keyshia Cole's mother, dies at 61

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Lons died of an overdose after a decades-long struggle with addiction, reports TMZ. Her addiction battle was documented on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew a decade ago. Lons also appeared on all four of her daughter's BET reality shows (Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is, Keyshia & Daniel: Family First, Keyshia Cole: All In and Keyshia Cole: My New Life) and the 2009 spinoff series Frankie & Neffe, which she starred in with another daughter, Neffeteria Pugh. “I don’t want to live forever,” Lons told Cole in 2019. “You’ll always have my protection as a mother, spiritually. Nothing can touch a mother’s love.”