"This is very delicate for me to write because i'm wanting to honor their privacy, which they held so tightly," she shared in a Jan. 25 Facebook post. "There's an awful irony in the fact that, because of the very lengths they went to in order to protect their privacy in life—that privacy has been stripped away in death."According to Alicia, her parents were "fiercely stubborn" and private people who often refused her help with repairs on their home.
Added Alicia, "I begged, cried, tried to reason with them, tried to convince them to let me help them move—but every time, they became furious with me, telling me I had no right to tell them how to live their lives and that they had it all under control," she explained. "It was not for a lack of trying on my part, or the part of other people who loved them."
Noting that Robert and Diane "were not penniless," Alicia explained that her parents "made choices" that she didn't agree with and she eventually stopped "short of petitioning the court system for taking control of two otherwise very sharp, very independent, very capable adults." "Our last words to each other were ‘I love you,'" Alicia concluded her tribute. "That part was simple; never in doubt. They loved me so. I loved them so."
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