Emilie Kiser has issued her first statement addressing the tragic death of her son Trigg after he drowned in a backyard pool, admitting she should have done more as his mother to “protect him”.

The American influencer’s three-year-old Trigg was pulled unconscious from the family pool in Arizona on May 12 and died in hospital six days later.

On Friday, she released a lengthy statement to her 1.8 million Instagram followers that detailed her magnitude of grief and how moving forward in life without her fist-born “feels unbearable”.

Kiser also said the hardest lesson she has learnt from this tragedy was that a “permanent pool fence could have saved (Trigg’s) life”.

“It’s something I will never overlook again,” she said.

“I hope amidst this, Trigg’s story will help prevent other childre

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