The son of an unvaccinated Czech folk singer who died last weekend after catching COVID-19 on purpose in order to start having a 'free' life again, lashed out at anti-vaxxers for filling his mother's head with inaccurate information.
Jan Rek, the son of folk singer Hana Horka, also revealed his mother's final tragic moments before she died on Sunday.
The morning she died, Horka, 57, remained in good enough health to get dressed for a walk, before she complained that her back was hurting and went to lay down in her bedroom.
'In about 10 minutes it was all over,' Rek said in an interview with the BBC on Wednesday. 'She choked to death.'
Horka reportedly believed that catching the virus would allow her to avoid needing the vaccine, leading to her celebration upon learning she had contracted the virus.
Rek blamed anti-vaxxers in the Central European country for her death.
'You took my mother, who based all her arguments on your basis. I despise you, you are an absolute waste,' Rek wrote on Facebook following his mother's death.
Pictured: Jan Rek, left, son of folk singer Hana Horka, right
Horka, pictured, was the lead singer for the Czech folk group Asonance prior to her tragic death
Horka, pictured, reportedly believed that catching the virus would allow her to avoid getting the vaccine, leading to her celebration upon learning she had contracted the virus
Horka, who was the lead singer for the Czech folk group Asonance, had previously announced her infection on social media, and welcomed the virus in several posts.
She said she was 'happy' to contract COVID because she would be able to obtain a health pass that would allow her to visit venues blocked to those without proof of vaccination or recent recovery from an infection, her family said.
'I'm very happy about it because in this way I would be able to start having a "free" life like everyone else, and go back to the cinema, on vacation, to take a sauna, to the theater,' she wrote.
'I survived… It was intense. So now there will be the theatre, sauna, a concert… and an urgent trip to the sea,' she wrote on Friday, just two
