Bunny Wailer’s Son Creates Documentary About Reggae Legend’s Missing Wife Sister Jean

Abijah Asadenaki Livingston, son of the late Reggae legend Bunny Wailer, has released a documentary about his missing stepmother Sister Jean.

Wailer passed away earlier this month, at 73, and sadly he never got the chance to reunite with his love, Jean Watt, affectionately known as Sister Jean. The two had been together for 50 years before she went missing on May 23.

The family is still holding out hope that she would be found alive and Wailer’s son Abijah Asadenaki Livingston, released a documentary on March 6, four days after his father’s death, in an attempt to raise awareness about the situation. The documentary focuses on the family’s pursuit of their matriarch and the challenges that they have faced so far.

While speaking about the love that they shared, Abijah admitted that they did not always see eye to eye but added that their love was unique, pure and strong.

“My father and Sister Jean’s relationship was not ideal but it was theirs. In their early years, they tried but could not have children together based on professional diagnosis… Sister Jean still stood up in her motherly role as my father, like his father, has many children. Even as children we were very much aware of my father’s allegiance to his ever-faithful wife Sister Jean who nurtured us as a real mother would,” he said.

The documentary reveals that Sister Jean suffers from dementia and also shows the last moments she was spotted leaving her home. That moment was captured on CCTV.

She was last seen wearing a black top, brown skirt, and sandals.

Another member of the Wailer’s family, his daughter Sara also opened up about what dementia had done to Sister Jean including the fact that she became very forgetful as she struggled with the mental illness.

“Sometimes she’d a left the pipe dem on, left dem running. She’d a wash the same clothes dem over and over on repeat. Every day she’d a leave the stove on. She’d a seh she a bake and she a mix up all sort a ingredients weh a nuh cake ingredients,” she added.

Her sister Candi said the family became very aware of the danger that she posed to herself and they would do all that was necessary to protect her.

“Sister Jean is not aware that she cannot do the things that she used to do that she was younger now so she will leave the iron on or the stove on… I have to be there to go make sure that the iron is plugged out so that she doesn’t harm herself as well as harm others,” she said.

Dementia is a difficult disease to control and Dr Denise Eldemire Shearer of the Mona Ageing and Wellness Center joined the documentary to share her expert opinion. “With dementia you have an impaired ability to remember, an impaired ability to think and most importantly, an impaired ability to make decisions. You don’t think straight, you get things confused,” she said.

According to another relative, her mental decline started about 15 years ago. The family continues the search which so far has not yielded any success but they are still hoping for a happy ending.

A million-dollar cash reward still stands for any valid information leading to Sister Jean’s recovery.   The family can be contacted at 876-850-4403 or 876-819-7581.