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Emilie Kiser is sharing her support for parenting influencer Kelly Hopton-Jones, who recently spoke candidly about a car accident involving her young son, Henry
“I’m so incredibly sorry,” Kiser told Hopton-Jones via Instagram
Kiser’s show of support for Hopton-Jones comes nearly one year after the influencer’s 3-year-old son Trigg was found unconscious in the backyard pool and later died
Emilie Kiser is sharing her support for parenting influencer Kelly Hopton-Jones, who recently spoke candidly about an accident involving her young son, Henry.
Hopton-Jones, 36, called Wednesday, April 15, “the worst day of our lives” in an Instagram post, sharing that she’d been taking the car out with her daughter Lily, 4, when her son Henry, 23 months, ran out from their garage and “in a matter of seconds…and was run over by our car” as she was driving.
Kiser, 27, shared a response in the comment section, writing, “I’m so incredibly sorry ❤️🩹.”
Kiser and her husband Brady with their two sons Trigg and Theodore in April 2025.
Credit: Emilie Kiser/Instagram
Hopton-Jones shared in her post that Henry had sustained pelvic fractures and a few abrasions, but testing showed no signs of anything more serious.
She also said what stayed with her the most was a doctor telling her and her husband, “He is hurt, but this is something he can recover from.”
She added that the family is “in shock” after the incident but “so incredibly grateful.”
Hopton-Jones shared a photo of Henry recovering in a hospital bed after the ordeal, as well as several pictures of herself holding her son’s hand, showing his bandaged arm.
“We are holding him a little tighter tonight,” she wrote in the post. “We’re on the lucky side of a very tragic accident.”
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Kiser’s show of support for Hopton-Jones comes nearly one year after the influencer’s 3-year-old son Trigg was found unconscious in the backyard pool of her family’s Arizona home and died at the hospital six days later.
Following her son’s death, Kiser, who was known for sharing lifestyle and family content online, took a hiatus from posting to her social media accounts. She returned in August, writing in an emotional post that she had taken time away to “digest the loss of my baby” and taking “full accountability” for his death.
PEOPLE previously reported that she was not home at the time when Trigg fell into the pool. Her husband Brady was home, though he lost sight of Trigg while caring for their then-newborn Teddy. In a March Instagram post to mark 10 months since Trigg’s death, Kiser described what happened as “a preventable drowning accident.”
“I continue to feel like I have no words in what to say when I’m asked how I feel because the only adequate word is ‘broken.’ I miss him so much. Everything about him. Especially the joy and light he brought to our home,” she wrote of Trigg. “I see him in Teddy every single day, and that does bring me some level of peace, while also surfacing a lot of other emotions.”
She concluded her post by advocating for pool safety and the “awareness” regarding what happened to her son. “It’s apparent to everyone who has ever heard HIS story, that it was preventable,” she reiterated, asking her viewers to fence their pools and add “multiple barriers” and get their “in swim lessons NOW & consistently.”
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