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Emilie Kiser Calls 2025 ‘Soul-Crushing’ in New Year Video After Son’s Drowning

She frames 2026 as a year of healing after prosecutors declined charges in her son’s drowning.

Overview

  • On January 1, Kiser posted a tearful seven-minute TikTok, calling 2025 “literally soul-crushing” and saying she feels “very lost” entering the year.
  • She said the past seven months have felt empty and that she has tried to keep going for her younger son, Theodore, who was born in March 2025.
  • Trigg, 3, was found unconscious in the family’s Arizona pool on May 12 and died six days later, according to the reporting.
  • Chandler police recommended a class 4 felony child-abuse charge for father Brady after video showed Trigg unsupervised for more than nine minutes, but county prosecutors later said there was “no likelihood of conviction.”
  • Kiser has discussed therapy and choosing not to use medication for grief, accepted responsibility while emphasizing that a permanent pool fence could have saved Trigg’s life, and a source told Us Weekly the couple have been working on their relationship.