Leonardo DiCaprio and family are mourning the death of his beloved grandmother Helene Indenbirken, 93.    She died in her native North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.  There has been no confirmation of exact date or cause.

The actor idolized his grandmother and once told Vanity Fair:

“She is literally gangsta, and I mean that with an ‘a.’ She will tell people exactly what she thinks to their face and look them in the eye.”

DiCaprio told the magazine in 2004 his grandmother saved his mother’s life.  A toddler during World War II, his mother, Irmelin, suffered a broken leg. His grandmother nursed her back to health in a German hospital:

“All these refugees from the war and all the soldiers came into the hospital,” ”She ended up contracting five or six major illnesses and stayed for two and a half, three years.  “My grandmother basically came every day and nursed her back to health because the nurses didn’t have time.”

Leonardo was extremely close to his grandmother.  Our thoughts and prayers to him and his family.  Grandmothers are precious.

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