Angela 'Big Ang' Raiola's Final Words Were That She Wanted to go Home Says Sister

Mob Wives star, Angela 'Big Ang' Raiola will be laid to rest on Monday, February 22 after losing her battle with stage 4 cancer. Before she died last Thursday, Raiola's sister, Janine Detore, revealed that her sister's last words were that she wanted to go home.

 Smiling at heaven my angel #mysister #myfriend #imissyou #myhearthurts

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Detore said: "She just said she wanted to go home. It was very hard." Along with suffering from cancer, Raiola also had pneumonia when she went into the hospital last week. "She came down with pneumonia last week," Detore explained. "She went to the hospital last week for it, but she got better and came home on Friday." Detore added, "Ang was okay, and then she got pneumonia again Sunday." Raiola would return to the hospital on Monday and never come back out. "She got in the ambulance and said, 'I'll see you later.' Nothing was going through my mind," Detore recalled. On Wednesday, things took a turn for the worse. "They told me I had to come," she said. "I never thought I was going to walk into this, and that's what I walked into," the sister of the reality star admitted. "Her pneumonia was her death, and the cancer was so aggressive." "It was so quick," Detore revealed. As family and friends surrounded Big Ang by her bedside, Detore described the final moments with her as "peaceful." She said: "It was very peaceful. We were playing her favorite music. We were telling her how much we love her and how mommy and daddy were waiting for her."

Thank you @dr_oz for this it was a wonderful unforgettable experience with my sister @biggangvh1 #myfriend #mysister #imissyou #myhearthurts A video posted by janinedetore (@janinedetore) on Feb 18, 2016 at 10:03pm PST

Ang was a mother of two and a grandmother of six. Detore shared that she told her sister that she'd watch over the family.

"We told her she could go in peace and I will take care of the kids and grandchildren. Even her doctor cried and cried."

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Raiola claimed that she had split from her husband, Neil Murphy, while suffering from cancer. Raiola told Dr. Oz that she felt her husband wasn't showing support while she was ill. "I felt like he never stepped up to the plate, so I was done with it." Raiola said before she died. "Now, it's too late. I would rather be by myself. I would rather be alone."

Murphy was also present when his wife took her final breath.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Ang's family during this sad time.