Samantha Busch opened up about potentially having her husband, late NASCAR driver Kyle Busch’s, baby in the event of his death in a resurfaced clip.
Samantha, 39, explained to guest Ashley George during a November 2025 episode of her “Certified Oversharer” podcast that if her husband were to die, she would want to have another child and name him after Kyle.
Kyle died on Thursday, May 21, after a bout of severe pneumonia resulted in sepsis. He had been preparing to race in the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday, May 24, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“Here’s something I’ve never told anybody,” Samantha told George last year. “I’m a certified over-sharer. So a lot of people ask me what we have done with our embryos because we still have some.”
She continued, “I can’t part with them. We are paying to freeze them until… they’re going to have to come with me. I don’t know what else to do at this point because I love them so much and can’t make a decision.”
After welcoming son Brexton through IVF in 2015 and inspired by their continued fertility journey as they struggled to have another baby, Kyle and Samantha began their Bundle of Joy Fund, helping families welcome more than 100 babies via IVF through more than $2 million in grants. They eventually welcomed daughter Lennix in 2022.
“Kyle was like, ‘We’re done having kids,’ and I said, ‘But what if?’” Samantha added. “I told him the most morbid story the other day. I was like, ‘What if you passed? I would have to have another kid to be connected to you and name that child after you.’”
Kyle, however, wasn’t having it.
“He was like, ‘What is wrong with you?’ and I was like, ‘These are the things I think about Kyle. I love being a mom and I have never told anybody that until I told you.”
Samantha, Brexton and Lennix were all at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday for what was supposed to be Kyle’s next race. NASCAR honored the legendary driver beforehand with a moment of silence and a kind message from the speedway’s PA announcer.
“Samantha, I want you to know that this sport stands with you, and that you and your children are NASCAR family forever,” the announcer said during the ceremony.
He continued, “Brexton and Lennix, your dad loves you with all his heart. Everyone gathered here, everyone behind you, everybody watching on TV, and all those people up in that grandstand are your family, and we’ve got you.”
Daniel Suárez went on to win the Coca-Cola 600, dedicating it to Kyle after the race.
“This weekend, it just means more than just the race. With everything that has been happening with Kyle,” Suárez, 34, said in an interview with Sports on Prime. “This one really means a lot.”
