(NEXSTAR) – Country star Luke Bryan opened up about the 2007 death of his sister in a recent podcast appearance, calling the circumstances surrounding her sudden passing “tragic beyond words.”

“I've never really explained what happened to my sister. There's some misinformation out there on the internet, and I think some people kind of like, wonder what happened and they think that we've tried to cover it up,” Bryan explained on the latest edition of “All There Is,” a podcast hosted by CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “But there is a very, very small percentage of people that die for no reason in the world. And it's called sudden death syndrome and that's essentially what they, um, they described my sister's death as.”

Bryan said his sister, Kelly Cheshire, was “in her home doing her laundry, and …

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