BONUS: Get Real with Caroline Hobby -Amber Smith: Wife of Country Star Granger Smith shares her story of losing their 3 year old son River to a tragic downing accident.
The Bobby Bones Show
Premiere Networks
4.8 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This interview was emotional, inspiring, gut wrenching, raw and full of faith. No parent should ever have to bury their own child. The pain is too much to bare. Last week marked 1 year since River Kelly tragically died in Amber and Granger Smith’s pool. They had a fence and lock and all the precautions. It just happened so fast and silently. Amber tells me how adventurous River was, how sweet and kind he was; always picking her wild flowers and drying her eyes if she would pretend to be sad. Amber walks through the day the accident happened. She talks about her faith, and how she and Granger and their other 2 kids are still finding joy in life, even though Amber said “she may never be truly happy again.” The amount of strength and courage Amber has to talk about River’s death, to still find beauty in life, to be able to go on and want to help spread awareness to other parents about water safety with children, so no other parent has to experience this heartbreak, is just plain amazing. Amber is a shining light to this world of finding hope in the darkest places and never losing faith in God.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey you guys it's Caroline Hobbie. Thank you for checking out the Bobby Bones show podcast. |
| 0:03.7 | I wanted to share an episode of My Podcast Get Real with Caroline Hobbie. This episode is |
| 0:09.5 | Amber Smith. She's the wife of Granger Smith and she is sharing her love story with how she met |
| 0:15.0 | Granger at a music video shoot. Their family and how she coped and is coping with the loss of their |
| 0:22.2 | young son River. It's such an intense episode. It's inspiring. The love that Amber shares the |
| 0:30.7 | heart that she shares is just so moving. So I know you will be so inspired and moved by this |
| 0:38.0 | episode and subscribe on iHeartRadio Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast just search |
| 0:43.6 | Get Real with Caroline Hobbie and here is episode now with Amber. |
| 1:13.6 | So after many technical difficulties I have to scout how to turn the volume on my computer. |
| 1:22.7 | I am so happy to have you here Amber Smith. Thank you all stunning. This is like our first |
| 1:29.6 | time to actually meet. It is. We were just saying we feel like we know each other. It's crazy how |
| 1:34.8 | that happens through socials but you feel like you've met somebody many many times and we've never |
| 1:39.1 | actually officially met. So maybe all our in Texas right? We are. We're in Georgetown. |
| 1:44.0 | Okay I'm from Waiko, Texas. So isn't that George Towns like right by Austin right? |
| 1:50.4 | Yes it's about 20 minutes 25 minutes or so. Okay I Austin is my favorite city in Texas |
| 1:56.7 | hands down. I've never really spent much time in Georgetown but we always drive through it |
| 2:00.6 | because my sister and brother and I live in Austin. Do you love living in Texas or were you |
| 2:04.7 | and the grandeur both from there? We are. We are both originally. I've grown up in Texas my whole |
| 2:10.1 | life. He's from Dallas. I'm from Fort Worth and then we kind of just picked a central spot. We |
| 2:15.9 | we thought Austin would be like a good location but we didn't want to be in the heart of Austin |
| 2:20.0 | and hit all the traffic. So we just moved a little bit out. We lived in Round Rock for a few years |
| 2:24.8 | in the now Georgetown for gosh almost go on on six six years here. Nice. So I was asking I was like |
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