The woman famously known as “Baby Jessica” over her miraculous 1987 rescue from a Texas well as an infant has shared a cryptic Facebook post about “letting go” days after being arrested for domestic assault.
“Note to self: Happiness is letting go of what you assume your life is supposed to be like right now, and sincerely appreciating it for everything that it is,” wrote Jessica McClure Morales, now 40, in a Monday Facebook post.
“So, relax. Reset. You are enough. You have enough. You do enough. Breathe deep. Let go, and just live right now,” the married mom of two added.
McClure Morales made no further comments under the post, and it wasn’t clear if the person she was referring to was her husband of 20 years and father of her children, Daniel Morales.
No further details have been given about McClure Morales’s arrest on Saturday night following reports of a disturbance at her home in Midland, Texas.
The arrest comes almost four decades after she made headlines around the world when she was pulled alive from an abandoned well in Midland following a nerve-shredding 60-hour rescue mission.
The then-18-month-old Jessica became trapped in the well after wandering off in the backyard of her aunt’s house, climbing into an eight-inch-wide pipe, and falling 22 feet down.
Ultimately, crews were able to rescue her by drilling a tunnel through the adjacent rocks.
Her rescue captivated the world’s media, with then-President Reagan calling her “America’s child.”
The story even inspired an episode of “The Simpsons” where Bart Simpson falls down a well and is rescued by the British pop star Sting.
McClure Morales lost a toe to gangrene and had to endure more than a dozen surgeries as a result of her ordeal.
In January, she suffered heartbreak when her father’s stepdaughter, Gracey Adams, was brutally murdered.
Gracey Adams, 25, was found dead in the bedroom of her Nashville home, with her girlfriend, Sarah Stacey, 29, charged with killing her.
The case is ongoing, and McClure Morales has not commented publicly on the shocking incident.
