Influencer Emilie Kiser is speaking out about eldest son Trigg’s death in her first podcast appearance since the 2025 tragedy occurred.
“I’ve gone through so many different emotions with parenting since we lost Trigg. And just being completely honest, feeling not good enough. Feeling unfit. Feeling scared. Losing a child really shows you in the scariest, most real way possible just how quickly life can change and how quickly life can be literally taken away,” Kiser, 27, said on the Wednesday, June 17, episode of Jay Shetty’s “On Purpose” podcast. “I think that really scared me with Teddy.”
News broke in May 2025 that Emilie and husband Brady Kiser’s eldest son, Trigg, died at age 3 after being found unconscious in the family’s pool. The incident occurred just over one month after Emilie gave birth to the couple’s second child, son Theodore “Teddy,” that March.
While authorities initially recommended pressing criminal charges against Brady, 29, because he was the only adult home at the time of the accident, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office ultimately decided against it because there was “no likelihood of conviction.”
During her Wednesday appearance, Emilie explained that there are “so many things in [her] control” as a parent, she noted that she learned of “so many stories” after Trigg’s death of a “freak accident” with children.
“That’s an element that has been hard in parenting him, is realizing that there is only so much I can control,” she said. “I always try to remind myself that I have a choice to make. I can either let this completely derail me more than it already has and not really feel like I’m fit or able to take care of my younger son. Or I can do everything in my power to be the best mom I possibly can for him. And give him the same love that Trigg had and has.”
She continued: “And I made a promise to Trigg right before we lost him that I was going to take care of Teddy. That was actually my final promise to him was like, ‘I will take care of your brother.’ Because at that time, I felt like I couldn’t. It really just was too much. I couldn’t even take care of myself. But that has kept me going of, ‘I made a promise. I’m going to fulfill it and I’m gonna give Teddy the best life I possibly can.’ And that means showing up for him, showing up for myself. Doing everything I possibly can to make sure that that happens.”
Emilie Kiser released an emotional statement on her son Trigg’s death, three months after the tragic accident. The influencer broke her silence on the incident via Instagram on Thursday, August 28, sharing a lengthy note on navigating grief after her 3-year-old’s accidental drowning at the family’s home in May. “Loss of this magnitude feels impossible […]
In the months since Trigg’s death, Emilie explained that it’s important for her to keep her late son’s memory alive.
“From the beginning, Brady and I told our families, I never want a world — and I never want Teddy to grow up in a world — where this is an avoided conversation,” Emilie shared. “Because even though it is a hard conversation and it leads to a bigger conversation — I’m sure Teddy is going to have as many questions as he gets older — I never want a world where people don’t talk about him.”
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