The ex-wife of late rapper Craig Mack thinks that he was purposely infected with HIV.
Mack's former wife and the mother of his two children, Roxanne Alexis Hill-Johnson, shared her belief that the "Flava In Ya Ear" rapper contracted AIDS as a setup. The artist was formerly signed to Bad Boy Records in the 1990s and briefly left the industry in the 2000s, relocating to South Carolina, where he joined a religious compound. Mack died in March 2018 at 47 years old.
In a new interview with The Art of Dialogue, Hill-Johnson said that she and her two children weren't aware of his AIDS diagnosis until two weeks before his death.
"The kids knew he had been sick, but no one told them what was wrong," Hill-Johnson said, adding that the coroner informed her that Mack was probably sick for a decade.
"Unmedicated, all those years. Why? I don't know. So, if you do the math, that puts him back in New York when he got sick," she continued.
New York City was the headquarters of the Diddy-founded Bad Boy Records, which is still active despite the music executive serving a 50-month sentence on charges of racketeering and sex trafficking.
"I believe him getting sick was something that was intentional," Hill-Johnson shared. "Craig was a very heterosexual man. He liked women. He liked the company of women. So when people were saying, 'Oh, he was gay.' He wasn't gay. Someone got to him."
The woman also recalled Mack telling a male artist to "be careful" in the music industry, warning him that someone would attempt to "poison" him with a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
Hill-Johnson also believes that Mack didn't take medication to treat his AIDS diagnosis, and if so, he didn't reveal it to her or their children.
The bombshell about Mack's health before his untimely passing was covered in an extensive Rolling Stone report last year. On his death certificate, Mack's cause of death was reportedly HIV/AIDS complications, but his family respected his wishes and "repeated his assertion that he had congestive heart failure."