--- title: Bode Miller Speaks Out After Daughter's Drowning Death description: Olympic ski star Bode Miller and his wife Morgan Miller spoke out about the drowning death of their one-year-old child Emmy Miller. canonical: https://time.com/5352587/bode-miller-drowning/ author: Billy Perrigo article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-07-30T13:13:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T09:36:01.630Z article:section: Sports og:title: Bode Miller Speaks Out After 1-Year-Old Daughter Drowns og:description: 'There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t pray for the opportunity to go back' og:url: https://time.com/5352587/bode-miller-drowning/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19913f7cdbd06a62/6989369a8fd2ee03fd35c429/bode-miller.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2214 og:image:height: 1245 og:image:alt: Bode Miller og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bode Miller Speaks Out After 1-Year-Old Daughter Drowns twitter:description: 'There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t pray for the opportunity to go back' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19913f7cdbd06a62/6989369a8fd2ee03fd35c429/bode-miller.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'She Brought So Much to Our Lives.' 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Olympic alpine skier Bode Miller and his wife Morgan Beck Miller opened up about the accident that lead to the death of their 19-month-old daughter Emeline Grier._  by [Billy Perrigo](https://time.com/author/billy-perrigo/)  ## Billy Perrigo Correspondent Jul 30, 2018 1:13 PM UTC  by [Billy Perrigo](https://time.com/author/billy-perrigo/)  ## Billy Perrigo Correspondent Jul 30, 2018 1:13 PM UTC Olympic ski star Bode Miller and his wife Morgan Beck Miller spoke out about the drowning death of their one-year-old child Emmy Miller on NBC’s _TODAY_ Monday morning, with Bode Miller saying that parents must be “hyper aware” of the [risk of drowning](http://time.com/5309870/how-keep-kids-safe-pools/). “I’ve been to all the pediatricians’ meetings and check-ups on our kids, and I can’t say it’s come up one time,” said Bode Miller. “There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t pray for the opportunity to go back to that day and make it different,” Morgan Miller, told _TODAY’s_ Samantha Guthrie. “This should be the number one thing that we talk about,” she said. “You need to be hyper aware.” > [](https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1023900093433487360) The couple praised their late daughter, saying “she brought so much to our lives.” “It’s an obligation to some degree,” said Bode of deciding to speak out. “I think it does in some way help to heal, a little bit, that maybe we’re preventing it from happening to somebody else.” Emmy Miller drowned in June while playing at a neighbor’s house with her mother in the next room. Suddenly, Morgan said, it became “too quiet.” She walked into the room where the children were and asked where Emmy was. “I turned around and the door that leads to the backyard, that was closed, had this tiny sliver of light coming through the side. And my heart sank, and I opened the door, and she was floating in the pool. And I ran and I jumped in,” she said. Morgan performed CPR and Emmy was rushed to hospital, but she died from a lack of oxygen to the brain. Drowning is the leading unintentional cause of death for children between the ages of 1-4. “It’s the number one way that you could potentially lose your kid,” said Bode Miller. “If it’s number one, for me, I want to know about it.” ## Transcript Prolific Alpine skier Bode Miller and his wife Morgan are opening up on The Today Show Monday about the drowning accident that claimed their 19- month old daughter Emmeline Grier's life. Watch. It's a obligation, to some degree. I think it does, in some way, help to heal a little bit that maybe we're preventing it from happening to someone else. We have the choice to live our days with purpose to make sure that no other parent has to feel what we're feeling. There's not a day that goes by that I don't pray for the opportunity to go back to that day and make it different. And just devastating. In the interview with Savannah Guthrie, airing on Monday, Bode and Morgan described their little girl as a bright light, a powerful personality, a determined child with a mind of her own. And they said they wanted to do this interview, their first since Emmy's death, Because they want other parents to know the realities of water safety. It's a topic they themselves had always taken seriously. They had taught Amy's brother to swim before she was born and had a fence around their pool but, this happened at a friend's house when they were indoors not even swimming It happened in a matter of seconds for the Millers and they say, guilt is the, quote, most difficult thing now. Morgan also pregnant due in October with the couple's third child. Now, Bode is also a dad of two children from a previous relationship. Morgen tells to [ UNKNOWN ], its complicated expecting a child with dealing with such tremendous loss she just [ UNKNOWN ] how much supposed to bring a new baby in this world, with just losing my other baby. Amy was so excited to be a big sister Now we have the opportunity to love that baby not for ourselves, but for Emmy, that was her quote. On Tuesday, the today Show, we'll tell the story of Morgan. And another mom who lives across the country, and lost her three year old boy to a drowning accident, the same day that the Millers Lost little Emmy. 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