Reggieana Lewis- Reggie Lewis’ daughter

Reggieana Lewis is the daughter of Reggie Lewis. Reggieana Lewis’ father, Reggie was an American professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association’s Boston Celtics from 1987 to 1993.

Reggieana Lewis: Profile Summary

Reggieana Lewis is the daughter of Reggie Lewis and Donna Harris-Lewis. As of 2022, she is 28 years old. Her Zodiac sign is Aquarius.

Reggieana Lewis’ father married her mother Donna Harris-Lewis in 1991 before dying in 1993.

Donna Harris-Lewis was pregnant with their second child Reggieana Lewis, when Reggie died on July 27, 1993. At the time, the couple also had a 1-year-old son, Reggie Jr. Their daughter, Reggiena, was born some six months later. The children are in their mid-20s now, and the family still calls the Boston area home.

On July 27, 1993, during off-season practice at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, Lewis suffered sudden cardiac death on the basketball court at the age of 27 years old. James Crowley, a Brandeis University police officer who happened upon the gym on a routine patrol, and another Brandeis University police officer attempted to revive Lewis by using mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but they were unsuccessful.

Reggieana Lewis’ father, Lewis is buried in an unmarked grave in Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. His death was attributed to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a structural heart defect that is the most common cause of death in young athletes.

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Following Reggieana Lewis’ father death, questions were raised about whether he had used cocaine, and whether cocaine use had contributed to his death. The Wall Street Journal reported that physicians “suspected that cocaine killed Boston Celtics star Reggie Lewis…but they were thwarted by actions by his family and a ‘dismissive’ policy toward drugs by the NBA.” The Journal added the following:

Whether Mr. Lewis died from a heart damaged by cocaine — as many doctors suspected then and now — cannot be definitively shown. What is evident: The official cause of death, a heart damaged by a common-cold virus, is a medically nonsensical finding by a coroner who was under intense pressure from the Lewis family to exclude any implication of drug use.

The Boston Celtics responded by expressing sadness about the “vicious attack on Reggie Lewis and his family” and threatening “to file a $100 million lawsuit against the reporter, The Wall Street Journal and its parent company, Dow Jones and Co. Inc.” 

Dr. Gilbert Mudge, a doctor who treated Lewis, was sued for malpractice in connection with Lewis’ death; in written responses to questions from the attorneys for Donna Harris-Lewis, Mudge said that “16 days before Lewis collapsed from a heart attack in 1993, he acknowledged having used cocaine, but said he had stopped.” 

On the other hand, the doctor who performed the autopsy on Lewis testified that the scarring on his heart was inconsistent with cocaine use, and other doctors reached the same conclusion though they “stopped short of saying he never used drugs.” Also, Lewis’s heart tissue tested positive for adenovirus during his autopsy.

Reggieana Lewis’ mother, Harris-Lewis reportedly spent millions defending her deceased husband against still-unproven allegations of cocaine abuse, allegations that also threatened an insurance payout to the Lewis family in excess of $15 million. For that, local newspaper columnists wondered, “Why is Donna Harris-Lewis doing this?”

The answer seems obvious: Reggie Lewis could no longer defend himself, and his wife was left to bear the torch for his name