{"id":2442,"date":"2019-03-12T20:53:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=238530"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:15","slug":"when-ellen-found-out-there-was-a-grieving-mother-in-the-audience-she-called-her-on-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/when-ellen-found-out-there-was-a-grieving-mother-in-the-audience-she-called-her-on-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"When Ellen Found Out There Was A Grieving Mother In The Audience, She Called Her On Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story originally appeared at American Web Media<\/a>.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>It\u2019s hard to imagine the pain one must feel upon losing a child. When her 3-year-old son, Ryan, was killed by a wayward truck while playing Frisbee in her own yard, Jacqui Saldana found the agony both unbearable and limitless.<\/span>Before her son died, Saldana was a well-known blogger writing about raising her toddler son on her blog, Baby Boy Bakery. Once upon a time, the blog was filled with cute stories, for example, about Ryan\u2019s first time trick-or-treating. After the accident, Saldana started using the blog as a vehicle to process her unimaginable grief and despair.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>
\n<\/span>One thing that helped Saldana and her husband was watching Ellen<\/em> each day, not only because the comedian was so funny, but because of DeGeneres\u2019 relentless cheer. The stand-up comic\u2019s entire career had been devoted to lifting people\u2019s spirits. Right now, the Saldanas could really use some of that trademark optimism.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>One day, Saldana happened to bump into one of Ellen\u2019s head writers, Kevin, at a Crate & Barrel. The grieving mother \u2014 who at this point had lost her son just three months before \u2013 approached the writer to communicate how and why the show meant so much to her family. She never expected her story to be shared with Ellen, too.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>As Christmas approached, the Saldanas received a surprise invitation to attend Ellen\u2019s show. They gleefully accepted and howled with laughter along with the rest of the studio audience \u2013 until Ellen herself made a surprising announcement.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>\u201cThere is someone in our audience who we invited to our show, because she\u2019s going through a very tough time, and I want to meet her,\u201d the comedian announced, calling Jacqui to join her on stage.<\/span>\u201cI\u2019m trying to keep this together because you\u2019re amazing,\u201d Ellen continued. \u201cYou inspire me.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>The comedian empathized with the young mother\u2019s loss and shared her own stories of heartbreak before revealing another surprise \u2013 a gaggle of holiday presents and recurring invite back onto the show throughout the holiday season. It\u2019s small gestures like these that \u2013 while they obviously can\u2019t bring Ryan back \u2013 at least briefly buoyed the Saldanas\u2019 spirits during this very terrible time.<\/span>Watch this heartwarming segment below!<\/span>Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This story originally appeared at American Web Media.It\u2019s hard to imagine the pain one must feel upon losing a child. When her 3-year-old son, Ryan, was killed by a wayward truck while playing Frisbee in her own yard, Jacqui Saldana found the agony both unbearable and limitless.Before her son died, Saldana was a well-known blogger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45824,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/45824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}