Nearly one month after sharing her first personal statement since the death of her three-year-old son, Trigg Kiser, Emilie Kiser has shared her first video on social media.
The video started off in the way Kiser, who was seen wearing a necklace with Trigg’s name on it, often started her videos prior to the tragedy, showing herself making a glass of iced coffee.
She then took a few moments to speak directly to her followers.
“Hi, you guys. Don’t even really know what to say,” Kiser began. “I’m gonna be honest. It’s been a minute since I’ve obviously come on here. Not gonna lie, I’m really nervous right now.”
Kiser, 26, continued, saying she doesn’t “really know if there’s any like, right way to start this video, but I’m gonna do my best. And just first off, want to say thank you if you’re here, I have missed truly getting to just like, chat with you guys every day.”
Kiser noted how “silly” that might sound to a lot of people, but the community she has built on social media, namely TikTok, is one that she really does love, she noted.
“I hope that in coming back and sharing a little bit of what I choose to I can reconnect with you guys and hopefully help anyone who is maybe going through a similar situation,” Kiser continued.
“Yeah, I have obviously been offline for the last little bit. I am just doing my best every day to figure this out, figure my life out. So I’m just taking it day by day. I’m going to do the same thing with my content. Just take it day by day.”
She then briefly addressed the last several months since Trigg died.
Trigg died on May 18, six days after he was discovered in his family’s pool in his backyard.
“Obviously, you guys know that the last few months have been really, really hard, and I’m not going to sugarcoat it. I’m not going to lie. I’m not going to sit here and act like things are fine and dandy. And I don’t want it to come off that way, with me coming back and making content again. This is really therapeutic for me.”
Kiser noted how much she missed “talking to you guys,” while admitting she’s not sure “what that’s going to fully look like.”
“I don’t know how much I’m going to be willing to share, especially about my grief journey. The last thing I want to do is, um, honestly, put myself in a position where I’m sharing too much, or I’m not ready to share stuff and I share it,” she explained.
“And the last thing I want to do is get on the Internet and cry and like, say every single way that I’m feeling, because I’m really just trying to process everything as best as I can day by day. But there are so many things that I do want to talk about, especially with my platform, and I want to talk to you guys about, I’m just not ready right now.”
Kiser said she’s not sure when she will be ready to talk about those things she wishes to share with the public before sharing a message to those going through the same thing she is going through.
“I just want to say that I love you, and I’m here for you, and I understand how hard it is. So yeah, just want to get some of that off my chest.”
Kiser ended the video by doing a Sunday reset, showing clips of herself cleaning her home.
Kiser briefly returned to social media in August when she shared a lengthy statement with her followers. – Miami Herald/Tribune News Service
