Veruca Salt is sharing her pain.
The TikToker addressed critics on social media who questioned her grieving process after her 1-month old son, Cash Harrison Stirling, died in his sleep Feb. 5.
“No hate but I don’t know how people can make tik toks just after their kids have died,” one person commented under one of her videos, “like setting the camera up, voice overs, editing.. I would 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’s now how I would act,’ from people who are literally imagining how it would be,” she said. “You have no idea, because your baby is not dead. Mine is. And I found him like that. And it’s not happening to you.”
The Australian influencer (real name Kimberley Summer Hartley) explained that only fellow parents who have lost a child could understand her suffering.