Brie Garcia recounted a scary pool incident with her son, Buddy.
In the Monday, June 9, episode of “The Nikki and Brie Show” on SiriusXM, Garcia, 41, revealed Buddy jumped into the deep end after another child tossed something into the pool and told him to “go fetch.”
Garcia had taken Buddy, 4, and his sister, Birdie, 7, to the pool but didn’t get in herself because she’d just gotten “a really good blowout” she didn’t want to ruin by getting her hair wet.
“We go to this, like, club place, so there’s people at the pool, whatever. It’s Sunday, fun day,” Brie explained to her sister, Nikki Garcia. “We’re all there and my kids, so Birdie’s actually really great at swimming now. It’s, like, really crazy to see her do laps. Buddy’s good in the shallow end, but he freaks out when he gets to the deep end, but he knows how to do it, but we’re not there yet, so I watch them like hawks.”
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“I told the kids, literally before we left at the house, I’m like, ‘Mommy’s not going to wear her swimsuit. I just, you know, I just don’t feel like swimming really.’ Really, I didn’t want to ruin my blowout. I’m like, ‘This blowout can go for a couple more days,’” she continued.
After being told to get the toy, Buddy “jumps into the deep end, and then literally, and I watch the whole thing, but I’m like, ‘Is he going to swim? Did he get the confidence to swim or something?’ And then Birdie’s like, ‘He’s drowning.’ So dramatic. So, I sprint and jump into the deep end.”
“I was literally in the middle of a conversation with five adults. …I just sprint andI grab him and we come up and Buddy’s wearing Birdie’s goggles, so they’re these, like, humongous pink glittery sparkly goggles and he’s like, you know, so upset, which he should be, and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh,’ and everyone is dead silent, just staring,” Brie explained. “ I just was like, ‘Damn, you know, that is what I deserve.’”
Brie’s experience with her son comes after May was National Water Safety Month and weeks after influencer Emilie Kiser’s 3-year-old son, Trigg, died after drowning in the family’s pool. Kiser has been fighting to keep the details of his death private. Per Tuesday, June 3, court documents obtained by Us, a judge ruled to give Kiser temporary confidentiality on her request for privacy “until a determination is made that balances the public’s need for information vs privacy interests.”
“Emilie has fully cooperated with investigators. The focus here is not on withholding information, but on safeguarding the dignity of a child and allowing a grieving family the space and privacy to heal,” a source told Us. Kiser was not home at the time of Trigg’s death.
