Make Page Six a Preferred Source Kaia Gerber opened up about grief and loss after the tragic death of her only sibling, Presley Gerber.
The model, 25, took to Instagram on Nov. 8 to share a picture showing a stack of books featuring titles such as “What The Living Do,” “The Year of Magical Thinking,” “Grief is for People” and “Finding Meaning.”
Gerber also posted a quote from Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking,” which read, “Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be.
“Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”
Some of the “Shards” star’s famous friends showed support in the comments section, including supermodel Helena Christensen, who wrote, “So much love to you.”
“Sending all of my love and healing,” celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe added.
Presley died on Sept. 20 at a rehab facility in Santa Monica, California. He was 27.
Sources told Page Six that the model had checked himself in for treatment just one day before he was pronounced deceased.
Additionally, a source told TMZ that Presley “did not appear sober” when he entered the facility.
The “Bottoms” actress previously paid tribute to her late brother last month with an emotional Instagram statement which read, “i love you the bluest, to the moon and back and back again, forever big brother.”
In Kaia’s post, which included a childhood video and photo of her and Presley, she admitted not having “the words” to address “the magnitude” of her loss.
“you know how much i loved being your sister. it has always been, and will forever be, my favorite thing about myself,” she continued. “i came into this world with a white-knuckle grip around you.
“i had more love for you than i knew what to do with. and now that it has nowhere obvious to go, i’m certain it’s going to swallow me whole.”
Despite knowing “where it ends,” Kaia said she “would choose it all over again. every second,” adding, “i would walk knowingly toward this grief if it meant that on the other side of it i got to be your sister.”
“my darling brother, i do adore you. i love my brother. my brother is dead,” she wrote. “and this party sucks so bad without you, prez.”
While an official cause of death has yet to be announced, 911 audio obtained by Page Six revealed that Presley went into “cardiac arrest” and was being treated for a suspected “overdose.”
Following Presley’s death, insiders told Page Six that his mother, Cindy Crawford, was “devastated” over her loss.
“They were so close. What you saw online and in the press wasn’t just for that purpose. They were a tight-knit family and Kaia and Presley were more than just siblings,” a source close to the family shared.
“This is every parent’s worst nightmare, and the family is still trying to process everything that happened.”
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