Emilie Kiser Speaks in First Interview After Trigg's Death
emilie kiser spoke publicly for the first time in an interview since her three-year-old son Trigg died after a drowning incident in May 2025. In a new episode of Jay Shetty's On Purpose podcast, she said the loss forced her to choose between being derailed by grief or caring for her younger son.
“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 said. She also said, “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.”
May 2025 incident
The death followed a May 2025 drowning incident in which Kiser was not home while her husband Brady Kiser was looking after Teddy and Trigg. An investigation found Trigg was unsupervised for at least nine minutes before he fell into the pool in the back garden, and a police report said he tripped and fell in while playing with an inflatable chair.
Trigg died in the hospital six days after the incident on 18 May. Kiser has said the death was preventable and that she will always take full accountability for it. In a TikTok post a few months later, she said, “I will always take full accountability for that because as a parent it is your job to protect your child.”
Teddy and water safety
Kiser said she has another young child to care for and that she has to keep going for him. “And I also have another piece of my entire world that’s here, and I need to take care of as a parent,” she said. She also said she signed Teddy up for ISR lessons at six months old.
She tied that to a wider warning for parents, saying drowning is the first cause of death for children aged between one and four, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ahead of the summer months, she urged families to watch children around water and to get ISR or swim lessons.
The interview adds Kiser's first full public account since Trigg's death and places her comments alongside her earlier posts taking accountability and urging water safety. Her focus now is on Teddy, but her remarks keep the May 2025 incident and its preventable nature at the center of the story.
