Brian McKnight refused to say 'I love you' to dying son Niko

Brian McKnight Jr. claims that his estranged dad, Brian McKnight, refused to say “I love you” to his son Niko before he died from cancer.

“One of the darkest and coldest and most disheartening memories of my life is the day my brother [Niko] calls me sobbing — with all he’s going through — looking death in the eye, to tell me I’m right about telling him not to call my father because I knew what was going to happen,” Brian Jr. said during a recent interview with Marc Lamont Hill.

“Because I knew where my dad was. I told [Niko], ‘Dad is gone.’ All my brother wanted, needed, asked for was my father to tell him he loves him,” the “Marry Your Daughter” singer added.

“My father responds to my brother, ‘I can’t arbitrarily say that I love you.’ But this is the man that wanted to help him?”