Emilie Kiser has spoken publicly for the first time since her three-year-old son Trigg died after a drowning incident in May 2025, saying she is trying her best to cope while carrying the loss into everyday life. In a new episode of Jay Shetty’s On Purpose podcast, the Arizona influencer described the death as preventable and said she takes full accountability.
Her comments land now because they are the first extended public remarks she has made since the fatal incident, giving a rare account of how she is trying to move forward while caring for her younger son. Kiser said losing a child shows, in the scariest and most real way, how fast life can change and be taken away, and that she has to choose between being derailed by the loss or doing everything she can to be the best mother she can be for Teddy.
That message sits alongside the facts of what happened in May 2025. Kiser was not home when Brady Kiser was looking after Teddy and Trigg. An investigation later found that Brady Kiser was distracted and that Trigg was left unsupervised for at least nine minutes before he fell into the pool in the back garden. A police report said Trigg did not enter the water intentionally, but tripped and fell in while playing with an inflatable chair. He died in hospital six days later on 18 May.
The gap between Kiser’s sense of responsibility and the official account gives the story its hardest edge. She has said she will always take full accountability because protecting a child is a parent’s job, and on TikTok she called the death very preventable. Yet the detail that Trigg was not in the water on purpose, but fell while playing, makes the loss sound like the kind of ordinary moment that turned fatal in seconds. It is the kind of distinction that does not ease grief, but it does shape how the public will read her accountability.
Kiser also used the moment to push water-safety advice to other parents, urging them to watch children around water and get them into ISR lessons or at least swim lessons. She said she signed Teddy up for ISR lessons at six months old. For now, her next step is not a public return or a formal statement. It is the private, unfinished work of raising Teddy while living with the absence of Trigg, a loss she described as continuing on without the person who was and is her entire world.
