Emilie Kiser and Brady Kiser are moving forward together. 

But in the period immediately following their 3-year-old son Trigg’s accidental drowning in May 2025, which occurred while Brady was home alone with Trigg and their then-five-week-old son Theodore, she wasn’t sure she’d ever be able to forgive him—until a shift in perspective changed her mindset. 

“From the beginning, I felt so angry at him,” Emilie told Jay Shetty during her appearance on his On Purpose podcast June 17. “But I think the biggest thing that really kind of altered literally my brain chemistry and the way I thought about it was this could have just as easily happened to me. This could have just as easily been me and Brady’s position.”

As the 27-year-old noted, when she left for dinner that evening, Brady was balancing caring for Trigg in addition to Teddy.

“It doesn’t excuse what happened,” she continued. “It doesn’t excuse any of the series of events after that. But taking that accountability along with all the other things I know I could have changed gave me so much true, deep, real raw empathy for him of this could have been me.”