Veruca Salt is sharing her pain.
The TikToker addressed critics on social media who questioned her grieving process after her 1-month old son, Money Harrison Stirling, died in his sleep Feb. 5.
“No hate but I do not understand how people could make tik toks just after their kids have died,” one person commented under considered one of her videos, “like setting the camera up, voice overs, editing.. I could be in bed for weeks an absolute mess.. RIP.”
Veruca, 25, responded to the message directly, sharing a TikTok video of herself wrapped in a blanket on Feb. 7.
“It won’t take long for me to do something for people to say, ‘That is now how I might act,’ from people who find themselves literally imagining how it will be,” she said. “You will have no idea, because your baby is just not dead. Mine is. And I discovered him like that. And it isn’t happening to you.”
The Australian influencer (real name Kimberley Summer Hartley) explained that only fellow parents who’ve lost a baby could understand her suffering.