2 months ago
19
Following America’s Got Talent contestant Emily Gold’s decease by termination Sept. 13, the teen’s household paid tribute to their beloved girl and sister.
In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2024
Content warning: This communicative discusses suicide.
Emily Gold is being remembered by those who knew her best.
Days aft the 17-year-old America’s Got Talent contestant died by suicide, her parents, Steven Gold and Brandy Gold, shared a heartbreaking tribute to their girl successful a societal media station Sept. 15.
“With sadness beyond measurement we indispensable archer you each that we mislaid our beauteous Emily connected September 13th,” they wrote connected Instagram, alongside a photograph of Emily successful her cheer uniform. “Our hearts person a spread the size of the beingness close now.”
“The outpouring of emotion and enactment we are receiving shows america however galore lives that angel touched and lifted up,” Steven and Brandy continued, “and it is what volition assistance america done the astir hard clip of our lives. Thank you each truthful overmuch for your emotion and support.”
The missive was credited to some parents, arsenic good arsenic Emily’s member Alex, who added a heartfelt connection of his ain successful the comments section. He wrote, “i emotion you sis i’m going to bash it each for you sick ever look for you successful the sky.”
The San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department confirmed Emily’s passing to E! News aft she was recovered dormant successful the lanes of a road successful Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. Sept. 13. According to the California Highway Patrol, the circumstances surrounding the incidental are inactive nether investigation.
Prior to her death, the teen competed connected play 19 of AGT’s, reaching the quarterfinals with her Los Osos creation squad and earning a lasting ovation—as good arsenic a glowing reappraisal from justice Simon Cowell—before being eliminated from the competition.
“It was perfectly brilliant,” Cowell raved during the series’ Aug. 13 episode. “What I loved astir this was, archetypal of all, the energy. I deliberation what I conscionable saw is everything a large schoolhouse should beryllium doing, which is encouraging endowment and friendship.”
If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize needs help, telephone 988 to scope the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You tin besides telephone the network, antecedently known arsenic the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, astatine 800-273-8255, substance HOME to 741741 oregon sojourn SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for further resources.
English (US) ·