Influencer Emilie Kiser speaks out about death of three-year-old son in first interview since incident
Emilie Kiser has opened up about the death of her three-year-old son Trigg in her first interview since the tragic incident.
The Arizona influencer wasn’t home when her husband Brady Kiser was looking after their younger son Teddy, now one, and Trigg in May 2025.
An investigation revealed that the 29-year-old was distracted by something when Trigg was left unsupervised for at least nine minutes and fell into the pool in the back garden.
Trigg ‘did not go into the water intentionally, rather he tripped and fell in while playing with an inflatable chair,’ according to a police report.
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The boy died in the hospital six days after the incident on 18 May.
As revealed exclusively by PEOPLE, the 27-year-old said in a new episode of Jay Shetty's On Purpose podcast that she is trying her best to cope.
"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 admitted.
"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."
A few months after her son's death, Emilie said she wished she could have done more to protect her son.
"Like I said, our son's death was very preventable, it was an accident but it was a preventable accident," she said on TikTok.
"I will always take full accountability for that because as a parent it is your job to protect your child."
Having posted the video ahead of the summer months, she noted that drowning is the first cause of death for children aged between one and four, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Please make sure that you watch your children around water and honestly, another thing that I really want to talk about for this video is please get your children into ISR (infant swimming resource) lessons or at the very least swim lessons," she said, adding that she signed her younger son up for ISR lessons at six months old.
“Continuing on without the person that literally is and was your entire world is so hard,” Emilie added. “And I also have another piece of my entire world that’s here, and I need to take care of as a parent.”
Anish Vij