It’s been just over a month since NASCAR driver Kyle Busch’s shocking death, and his widow, Samantha Busch, is finding a way to strike the balance between processing her grief and parenting the couple’s two kids.
“I lost the love of my life, my person, and my best friend,” she wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, June 24, alongside a carousel of photos of her children. “The man I built a life with and the person I thought I would grow old with.”
Samantha, 40, and Kyle, 41, shared son Brexton, 11, and daughter Lennix, 4.
Kyle died on May 21, one day after being found unresponsive in a racing simulator in North Carolina as he prepared for an upcoming race. His death certificate, obtained by Us Weekly, revealed he died after a battle with pneumonia that progressed “into sepsis, resulting in rapid and overwhelming associated complications.”
“Grief doesn’t stop parenting,” Samantha wrote. “The morning still comes. There are questions to answer, tears to wipe away, races to get to, bedtime stories to read, and two kids trying to make sense of a loss that no child should ever have to face.”
She continued, “People keep asking me how I stay so strong. The truth is, I don’t feel strong most days. I miss Kyle every second of every day. I want to curl up in a ball and cry. But I’m a mom. Brexton and Lennix still need hugs, comfort, laughter, routines, and someone to help carry their hurting hearts while mine is shattered.”
Samantha and her kids have all appeared publicly in the weeks since Kyle’s death. Brexton, an aspiring driver himself, returned to the track on June 2, just hours after his dad’s memorial service.
“When your children are hurting, something inside of you just takes over,” Samantha added. “You get up early, have a good cry, and then go make the pancakes. You answer the questions the best you can when you still have so many of your own. You smile for them when you’re in physical pain because you miss him so much. You do everything you can so they can keep being kids and not carry the full weight of all this. As a mom, all you want is for your children to feel safe, loved, and protected, even when your own world has fallen apart.”
She concluded by saying that her kids are the reason she keeps “putting one foot in front of the other.”
“For Brexton. For Lennix. For him. ❤️,” she wrote.
