16 and Pregnant star Whitney Purvis opened up concerning the heartbreaking second she realized her 16-year-old son, Weston Gosa Jr., was useless.
“I didn’t need it to be actual,” Whitney, 33, advised People in an interview printed on Thursday, June 5. “I didn’t perceive what occurred.”
Whitney shared the horrific information on Monday, June 2, that her teenage son – whom she shared with former accomplice Weston Gosa Sr. – died unexpectedly. The household has requested an post-mortem, because the little one’s explanation for dying has but to be established.
In her new interview, Whitney defined that she was pulling right into a car parking zone for a category when she acquired a “9-1-1” textual content from Weston Sr.
“Once I answered the cellphone, I may hear him crying earlier than he spoke, and I knew it was going to be dangerous, and he advised me, and I used to be simply in shock,” she stated. “He advised me the whole lot he knew at the moment, and that he would name me again, and I simply pulled out of the car parking zone and drove dwelling and simply screamed in my automobile, simply screamed to the highest of my lungs.”
Questions stay over the teenager’s ultimate hours, as digicam footage from Weston Sr.’s dwelling confirmed the boy repeatedly getting up from mattress in a single day, in line with Whitney.
“Massive Weston stated he got here into Little Weston’s bed room at 7 within the morning to wake him up, and he wouldn’t get up,” she stated. “They known as 911, and he did CPR till the ambulance acquired there, they usually pronounced him useless on the hospital.”
Whitney has chosen to grieve on her personal in the meanwhile, explaining that she’s felt as if time has been “standing nonetheless, simply frozen” since her son died.
“I can’t distract myself,” Whitney tearfully stated. “It’s going via my thoughts continuously. I hate to even decide up my cellphone.”
She went on, “Once I’m not crying, I’m simply staring on the ceiling. I by no means wished to undergo one thing like this. I imply, I do know nobody does, however you by no means suppose it’ll occur to you, and I simply can’t even think about a future now. I can’t think about occurring after this.”
Whitney touched on how her and Weston Sr.’s youthful son, River, born in 2014, is struggling to deal with his large brother’s dying.
“River doesn’t perceive it,” she stated. “River has autism, and I don’t suppose he fairly understands what’s occurring.”
Following the announcement of Weston Jr.’s dying, Whitney penned a stirring tribute by way of Instagram with the intention to concentrate on joyful reminiscences along with her late son.
“I’ll at all times cherish our reminiscences collectively,” Purvis wrote on Tuesday, June 3. “The songs you [used] to like, your chortle, the phases you’d undergo, the little dolphin noise you [used] to do once you had been youthful, your smile, your jokes, the primary day of faculty, enjoying with you, your first time swimming, making crafts, how you’d dance in your crib to the Regulation and Order: SVU theme track, being an amazing large brother, the primary time I held you and the final hug I gave you.”
Weston Jr.’s stepmother Amy Gosa beforehand opened up about her personal grief by way of a Fb publish the place she stated “dropping a baby is essentially the most painful factor” she has “ever skilled.”
“He was essentially the most superb son I may have requested for. He was good, sensible, humorous and had a lot potential in life. It doesn’t really feel actual,” she wrote. “Please hold our household and Whitney in your ideas and prayers as we mourn such a superb superb life that was our son.”
A fundraising page has been set for the household in hopes of amassing $12,000 to pay for Weston’s headstone and extra funeral prices.