An influencer who's son tragically drowned in a pool whilst she was at an event has spoken out for the first time. Emilie Kiser's son, Trigg, tragically passed away in May 2025.
She opened up about the moments leading up to his tragic death in an episode of the Jay Shetty Podcast. As Shetty put it, the influencer had "walked through a life-altering experience" which "reshaped her world".
Kiser explained that she had "went out" with her friends. She had just given birth to her younger child, and had gone to "dinner for a little girls' night out."
But things went downhill quite quickly. She recounted, "And about maybe 10 minutes after I arrived, I got a phone call from my husband that our son Trigg had fallen in the pool and that he wasn't breathing."
She continued, "I could hear the pain and the confusion in his voice. I knew immediately before he even said anything that something was wrong."
The influencer did the right thing and immediately went to hospital to go and see Trigg. "Our life just completely changed that day," she lamented. "He passed away about a week later, and, yeah, our whole world fell apart."
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The Influencer Revealed Her Thought Process at the Time
Of course, when these sorts of things happen, it is such an intense mental load to bare. She explained, "Your body just goes into fight or flight mode."
"I feel like I've just been truly taking it minute by minute, hour by hour, and slowly kind of increasing from there. But... The only thing that was going through my mind was that I wanted him to be okay, that I wanted my old life back, that I wanted him to have his life back."
She added that no one expects the thoughts and feelings that run through their heads before something tragic like this happens. "Even you will be surprised by the decisions you make, your thought process, your grief... I mean, you always sit there with theoreticals of 'this is how I would handle it', or 'this is what I would do', but you would literally never know."
Rest in peace.
