--- description: Prince's ex-wife Mayte Garcia is opening up about her life with the late singer in her new memoir, 'The Most Beautiful: My Life With Prince' title: Prince's Ex-Wife Mayte Garcia Opens Up In Her New Memoir image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f8a9cdf13a2140c/6988c10dfb4eac6d898915d6/mayte-garcia.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Prince's Ex-Wife Mayte Garcia Opens Up About the Death of Their Son by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Apr 4, 2017 2:37 PM CUT  Mayte Garcia in Los Angeles, on Dec. 3, 2016. Mayte Garcia in Los Angeles, on Dec. 3, 2016.Randy Shropshire—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Apr 4, 2017 2:37 PM CUT Prince’s ex-wife is opening up about her life with the late singer in her new memoir, _The Most Beautiful: My Life With Prince_. Mayte Garcia, who was married to Prince from 1996 to 2000, detailed the loss of their son, Amiir, in the book, which is available now. Born in 1996, Amiir suffered from the rare genetic disorder Pfeiffer syndrome type 2 and died at six days old. “It was really hard, but it was also very liberating and healing and honoring of him because for so many years I held it in,” Garcia said on ABC’s [Good Morning America](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/mayte-garcia-husband-prince-hiding-sons-death-handled/story?id=46562968 "undefined") on Tuesday. “When we lost Amiir, I read a lot of books that helped me and I’m hoping that somebody will read this and that it will help them as well.” Garcia [told](http://people.com/music/prince-ex-wife-mayte-garcia-son-born-pfeiffer-syndrome-refused-genetic-testing/ "undefined") _People_ that Prince, who [died last April from an accidental overdose](http://time.com/4584898/paisley-park-prince-2017-anniversary/ "undefined"), never got over the loss of his son. “I don’t know how anybody can get over it,” she said. “I know I haven’t.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4724533/prince-mayte-garcia-memoir/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4724533/prince-mayte-garcia-memoir/"},"headline":"Prince's Ex-Wife Mayte Garcia Opens Up About the Death of Their Son","datePublished":"2017-04-04T14:37:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:11:24.644Z","description":"\"It was really hard, but it was also very liberating\"","url":"https://time.com/4724533/prince-mayte-garcia-memoir/","keywords":["celebrities","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f8a9cdf13a2140c/6988c10dfb4eac6d898915d6/mayte-garcia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f8a9cdf13a2140c/6988c10dfb4eac6d898915d6/mayte-garcia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Chaz Dean WEN Winter Party Benefiting Love is Louder","caption":"Chaz Dean WEN Winter Party Benefiting Love is Louder","creditText":"Randy Shropshire—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4724533/prince-mayte-garcia-memoir/","name":"Prince's Ex-Wife Mayte Garcia Opens Up About the Death of Their Son"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"In Memoriam: Prince","description":"Prince, one of the best-selling recording artists in music history, has died. 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