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Kelsey Parker Speaks Out on Grief and Healing in First Interviews Since Son’s Stillbirth

Taking each day as it comes remains her guiding principle balancing public openness with spiritual faith for her family’s healing

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Overview

  • She granted her first televised and print interviews since Phoenix’s stillbirth this week, opening up about the emotional toll of consecutive losses.
  • Parker has leaned on daily routines—returning to school runs and podcast recordings—to demonstrate resilience for her two young children.
  • The mother of Aurelia, 6, and Bodhi, 4, said she told them that “Phoenix has gone with your daddy” to explain his stillbirth and foster honesty at home.
  • She attributed much of her comfort to spiritual faith, describing how she senses her son’s and late husband’s presence through signs in her everyday life.
  • After sharing Phoenix’s passing in June with a poem on Instagram, she took a social media hiatus and leaned on support from Tom Parker’s parents during a family getaway.