Remembering Meat Loaf: Daughter Amanda Aday Says “When We Were Home, He Was Just Dad”

Meat Loaf, the iconic rocker, died on Thursday surrounded by loving family and friends. He was 74.

His daughter, Amanda Aday, recently shared some of her sweetest memories of her famous father, saying that he was a “complex man with a lot of passion, who wore his heart on his sleeve” throughout his life. “So, he would tell you, ‘F—k you, I love you,'” she explained.

Growing up with a rockstar dad was not the average childhood experience, and Aday fondly remembers “having all of these amazing experiences” around touring arenas and tour busses.

When their family returned home after Meat Loaf would take the stage for nights on end, Aday explained how “it was home and he was just dad,” she says. “He wasn’t Meat Loaf anymore.”

“If we didn’t get good grades, we were grounded, and all of that stuff,” she recalled further. “So, it was very much, when we weren’t out on tour living this crazy life, it was very important to him that we were grounded in our home.”

Now that he has passed, Aday and her family want the world to also remember their father as more than a rockstar. “He was a singer, he was an actor, he was a father, a husband, he was a grandpa,” she said. “It was Papa Meat to my nephew. He was everything.”

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