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Opie on His Mom’s Death: “She Died Alone on My Wedding Anniversary”

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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VIDEO VERSION https://youtube.com/live/sUsFwc-spiM?feature=share

In this powerful and unfiltered episode, Opie opens up about the complicated passing of his 89-year-old mother—who died alone on November 22nd, the exact date of both his wedding anniversary and his Dad's first marriage anniversary. With Ron the Waiter by his side, Opie talks estrangement, toxic parenting, OCD, narcissism, childhood trauma, walking on eggshells, setting boundaries, and the dark family secrets that shaped his life. Raw, honest, and heavy—sometimes there’s no sugarcoating it.

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0:00.0

There we go. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to my live stream. We're 500, 500 feet above the streets in New York City as the sun. It looks like it's going to peek through the clouds in about 15 minutes or so. Hope everyone's doing well. Thanksgiving right around the corner. I was hoping to have a fun, fun, fun last live stream before Thanksgiving.

0:25.1

But, you know, life has a way of kicking you in the balls.

0:36.5

Last I left you, had a fun live stream with Ron the waiter and Tony Pee.

0:42.6

I was getting ready for my anniversary with my wife.

0:48.2

We were excited about that.

0:50.2

We took the kids to the restaurant that we had our first date.

0:58.6

Things were looking good for the weekend.

1:01.1

Looking good.

1:04.3

And then I get a call from my older sister.

1:23.0

And she basically announced to me that my mom died.

1:27.2

Yeah, 89 years old.

1:34.4

And I've been, I've been leaking tears ever since, if you want to know the truth.

1:40.4

And I don't want to do this live stream today.

1:46.3

But my friend Ron the waiter is like, man, you got it, you uh you gotta you gotta you gotta do it so he should be on in a few minutes and uh you know we're gonna probably

1:53.2

roll through this but i have uh i have very very mixed emotions of about the passing of my mom, 89 years old.

2:02.6

I'm not going to sugarcoat it.

2:04.6

She died alone.

2:06.6

She died knowing that all her kids stopped seeing her years and years and years ago.

2:13.6

And that's where we're at today. Extended family reaching out, basically saying,

2:24.7

try to see the good. They all knew. They all knew that we had a very, very tough mom, a very

2:30.9

tough mom, a mom that rarely gave us a break.

2:37.0

A mom that brought a lot of, a lot of sadness, a lot of negative energy into our lives.

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