Pink's husband Carey Hart talks about their family’s scary coronavirus diagnosis
Both Pink and the couple’s three-year-old son Jameson showed severe symptoms.
April 14, 2020 11:28 a.m. EST
April 18, 2020 12:00 a.m. EST
Pink and Carey Hart are proof that even when precautions are taken, COVID-19 can still attack and produce devastating symptoms. The pair began self-isolating on March 11 with their two children, 8-year-old Willow and 3-year-old Jameson, but both Pink and the couple’s young son ended up contracting the deadly virus. On Monday, Hart spoke to Sirius radio host Jason Ellis about the family’s scary experience with coronavirus.“It was intense,” remembers Hart. “They both got extremely sick. My son probably got the worst of the two of them and it debunks the whole theory that this only hits old people,” said Hart, who added that his otherwise physically fit wife’s pre-existing condition made her more susceptible. “She has asthma and it totally attacked her lungs and her chest. She was having a hard time breathing.”[video_embed id='1937557']RELATED: Pink opens up about her and her son's 'terrifying' experience with COVID-19[/video_embed]The retired motocross star said the family had been in quarantine even before he returned from Daytona Bike Week on March 11. “Leading up to that, my wife, well, basically my family, they hadn’t even left our house,” said Hart. “There’s not much reason to leave our house. We’re just kind of homebodies. So, they’ve been pretty locked down since probably about the third or fourth of last month.”Hart said that when he returned from Daytona, his wife was becoming increasingly nervous about the possibility of the family being exposed to the virus. “This thing ramped up really quickly over the course of five or six days,” said Hart, who stayed with his family on their farm after the remainder of his bike rally was cancelled. “When I got home on the eleventh, we went full-blown lockdown. Nobody in, nobody out because at that time we were assuming, ‘we live in a small town and my wife and kids haven’t gone anywhere.’ I came home, I wasn’t showing any symptoms and we were going the route that most people are, which is ‘I don’t want to get this’ and we are going full lockdown.”Hart said the family remained home for about ten days after Pink and their son began showing symptoms, finally leaving when Jameson took a turn for the worse. “He had an extremely high body temperature. He was up around 102, 103 for a solid two, going on three weeks straight,” remembers Hart. The family decided to temporarily move to their second home in Los Angeles in order to be closer to Jameson’s pediatrician and Pink’s doctor, finally returning to their remote farmhouse after the pair’s symptoms dissipated.“I have zero symptoms. My daughter had zero symptoms,” said Hart on Monday. “Unfortunately, we only had access to a test for my wife, but I don’t really feel that we need it more because, you figure, the four of us on top of each other for a couple weeks at this point, if one of us has it all of us have it. I mean, you have to kind of assume that.”
Pink revealed on April 3 that she and Jameson had both recovered from COVID-19 after Pink tested positive. The singer also announced that she was donating $1 million to help stop the spread of the deadly disease. On April 9, Pink appeared via video link on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and went into detail about what she called the “scariest thing I’ve ever, ever been through in my whole life.”“At one point I was crying and praying, and I realized how ridiculous I sounded,” said Pink. “I thought they told us our kids were going to be okay. We were told our kids were going to be okay. I think when people started explaining what this disease is, it was too early to be able to name it completely and tell everybody what to look for.”
