Influencer Emilie Kiser reveals how she forgave husband in first interview since the death of their 3-year-old son
Emilie Kiser has opened up about the range of emotions she felt towards her husband Brady following the tragic death of their toddler last year.
The content creator, 27, sat down for her first interview earlier this week to discuss the devastating loss of her son Trigg on May 18, 2025.
The mum spoke about how her 'life completely changed' following the three-year-old's untimely passing, while revealing how it rocked her relationship with her spouse of six years.
Trigg sadly died several days after he was found unconscious in the swimming pool at the Kiser's family home in Arizona.
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On that fateful day, his father Brady had been taking care of him and his baby brother Theodore, who was just five weeks old at the time.
Emilie had gone out for a dinner with her pals when she received the horror phone call from her husband informing her that Trigg had 'fallen in the pool and wasn’t breathing'.
"I could hear the pain and confusion in his voice, I knew immediately something was wrong," she told On Purpose podcast host Jay Shetty in the moving episode which was released on Wednesday (17 June).
"Our life completely changed that day, [Trigg] passed away about a week later."
The grieving influencer explained that she was speaking out about the heartbreaking incident in the hopes of educating other parents on pool safety, as she pleaded: "Please, protect your kids."
Emilie has been raising awareness of the dangers of young children around water in recent months and previously urged caregivers to 'fence your pools, add multiple barriers, get your kids in swim lessons NOW and always watch them around water'.
The online creator then admitted to Jay that she struggled to navigate her emotions towards her husband Brady in wake of Trigg's passing, given that he was the one caring for her sons.
"There was a time from the beginning where I felt so angry, I didn’t know if I could ever forgive this man," she told the podcast host.
"But I think the biggest thing that really altered how I thought about it was, this could have easily happened to me. Brady was taking care of our newborn child.
"When I left for dinner that night, he was thawing my breastmilk, trying to get Teddy, a five-week old baby settled. That doesn't excuse anything - it doesn't excuse what happened, it doesn't excuse any of the series of events after that. But taking that accountability, along with all the other things I know I could have changed, gave me so much true, deep, real, raw empathy for him - that this could have been me."
Emilie said a lot of people questioned how she could she could stay married to Brady, but explained her husband 'let her feel all of the emotions' she needed to before they became united in grief.
However, she did say that it had been 'really hard at times' to navigate this difficult path together.
Explaining how she forgave him, Emilie continued: "Even if I got to the point where I could not stay married to him, even if I accepted that there is a chance we don't stay together...I would be able to forgive him, because I would so deeply want him to forgive me. And to know that I didn't mean for it to happen. That's exactly how I feel for Brady.
"I have so much empathy and love for him, he is so strong. I'm so proud of us honestly in how we have grieved together.
"All the therapy we have done, I feel like we have really been given tools that even though our grief is so separate, we have really done our best to come together."
Elsewhere in the episode, Emilie said that she believes both her and Brady 'should have protected' Trigg.
"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," Emilie also 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."
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Olivia Burke