she found healing — and gratitude On the main floor of April Simpkins’s Tega Cay, S.C., home is a small room decorated with memories of her daughter Cheslie Kryst. It includes bold art prints ...

April Simpkins was running late for an exercise class on the morning of Jan. 30, 2022 when she received a text from her daughter, Cheslie Kryst, a correspondent on Extra and former Miss USA 2019.

Cheslie Kryst’s mother talks about daughter ... It was her wish that her mom, April Simpkins, would publish it after her death. Simpkins completed the second half of the book.

Receiving her daughter's last text before her death by suicide was 'devastating,' says April Simpkins, but it helped her understand Kryst's deep pain Cheslie Kryst's last text, sent just before ...

The pageant world was left shattered when Cheslie died by suicide in 2022 ... to her sadly deciding to take her own life. Her mom, April Simpkins, 56, who is a co-author on the tome, explained ...

Miss USA Cheslie Kryst has published her first memoir with the help of her mother. The beauty queen died two years ago at the age of 30. Her mother, April Simpkins, is the co-author of the memoir ...

This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You can also call the network, previously known as the National Suicide ...