Emilie Kiser’s lawyer has shared a public message following the death of Kiser’s three-year-old son Trigg.
The TikTok star’s toddler son died on Sunday, after falling into a swimming pool a week earlier.
Police have launched an investigation into the incident, with the Chandler Arizona Police Department commenting: ‘The investigation into the circumstances surrounding this incident remain ongoing. This is still an open investigation.’
‘Out of respect for the family’s privacy, we will not be releasing additional details until the investigation is closed.’
Now, in a new statement, Kiser’s lawyer – whose name was not reported – commented: ‘Emilie is going through a parent’s worst nightmare right now.
‘She lost her young son, her 3-year-old Trigg Chapman Kiser (‘Trigg’), on May 18, 2025, following a heartbreaking accidental drowning at the family’s home on May 12, 2025.
‘Emilie is trying her best to be there for her surviving son, two-month-old Theodore. But every day is a battle.’
The statement came as part of a lawsuit to block the release of records surrounding her son’s death.
The lawsuit explained that Kiser’s death had become a ‘media frenzy’ and claimed more than 100 public record requests were made into the incident.
The lawsuit, as seen by the Arizona Republic, showed Kiser’s lawyer stated the family’s reasoning for the block: ‘The records requested presumably reveal graphic, distressing, and intimate details of Trigg’s death that have no bearing on government accountability.’
The lawyer added that the release of the details of Kiser’s death would cause ‘irreparable harm’ to the family and emphasised that the record release would have nothing to do with the real purpose of records becoming open to the public, government transparency.
‘To allow disclosure in these circumstances would be to turn Arizona’s Public Records Law into a weapon of emotional harm, rather than a tool of government transparency,’ the lawsuit read.
The police in Phoenix, Arizona, confirmed that the three-year-old had died on Sunday, May 25.
Some of Emilie’s millions of followers had expressed concern after she had been absent on social media for nearly a week, and had connected the dots as local outlets reported on the drowning of a child.
Kiser was found unresponsive in the private garden pool of the family home on Monday, May 19, before being taken to a specialist unit at a children’s hospital, where he later died from injuries sustained from drowning.
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