What happened with Alex Warren’s parents? Family tragedy explored as singer wins First VMA for Best New Artist

American singer-songwriter and social media influencer Alexander Warren Hughes, commonly known as Alex Warren, is currently making headlines following his win at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards. The 24-year-old Warren, who co-founded Hype House in 2019, a collaborative TikTok group, won Best New Artist at the 2025 VMAs. While Alex Warren began his career as an independent musician, he shared prank videos on TikTok and YouTube.

As per USA Today, the Carry You Home hitmaker, Alex Warren, who was also nominated for Best Pop and Song of the Year, was quite surprised after finding out that he had won Best New Artist at the red carpet on September 7, 2025. During a conversation with Nessa, who was the pre-show co-host, Warren said:

"I truly did not ... thank you so much. What the? I was totally ready for (fellow best new artist nominee) Sombr to be here."

Alex Warren further added:

"I don't even know what to say to you right now. I pooped twice today; I might go for a third. I'm about to cry. I don't know; this is amazing. Thank you so much!"

Alex Warren, who has gained significant fame over the past few years, with millions of fans listening to his songs and following him on social media platforms, has had a tough childhood and faced numerous difficulties growing up. The Eternity hitmaker lost his parents quite early, at different periods in his life. According to Distractify, Alex lost his father to kidney cancer when he was just 9. In 2018, Alex took to Instagram and shared a post in which he opened up about his father and wrote:

"As many of you know I lost my dad when I was 9. He was battling cancer for a long time, he won most of the battles, but this one he died with the love from all of his family and friends. I want to personally say thank you to everyone who has helped my family and I in the past and future and all the kind words. He was such an amazing person and such an [influential] person for me. I do everything I do to make him proud up there. Love ya big man, see you again."

While his father died when he was just a nine-year-old boy, Alex Warren lost his mother when he was 21, as per reports. According to Distractify, his mother died from several complications because of her alcoholism. It was after his father's death that his mother began drinking heavily, which eventually led to her death. During an episode of his podcast, Locked In with Alex Warren, the Before You Leave Me singer, regarding his mother, said:

"My mom was an amazing person, but my mom drunk was probably worst person alive. And my mom was drunk more than she was sober."

Alex Warren's mother threw him out of their house

According to Distractify, Alex Warren, who is not into consuming drugs or drinking alcohol, was 17 when his mother threw him out of their house. With no place to go at the time, he allegedly slept in his friends' cars. During a 2021 interview with Forbes, Alex Warren said:

"A lot of my friends' parents didn't like me because, instead of working or going to college, they'd hang out with me and shoot vlogs. They wouldn't let me stay in their house, so I'd sleep in my friends’ cars. And the next day, I'd shoot with them. And the next night, I'd go to someone else's house and do the same thing."

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Alex, in one of the episodes of his podcast, also revealed that he was in touch with his mother two months before her unexpected death. He said:

"Our communication before she passed away was 'I've been attending AA meetings and I'm no longer drinking. I'm now sober.' She died from liver failure and renal failure due to alcohol three months later."

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