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Amber Smith Reveals Husband Granger Smith’s Near-Suicide After Son River’s 2019 Drowning

Her memoir says he told her about the episode roughly three and a half years after it happened.

Overview

  • The disclosure appears in an excerpt from The Girl on the Bathroom Floor released by People ahead of the book’s Oct. 14 publication.
  • She recounts that, after a Boise concert, he drank heavily, returned to his tour bus, and put a Glock 9mm in his mouth before breaking down in tears.
  • Amber writes he experienced intrusive visions of River and, after praying, dropped the gun and fell asleep on the bathroom floor.
  • Granger previously described the night as his rock bottom in his 2023 memoir Like a River.
  • Since River’s drowning at their Texas home in 2019, the couple have pursued therapy, promoted water safety, and Granger has left music to enter ministry.