MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler
Sep 3, 2026 · 55 min · 15 segments
This week on Living With It, Jamie sits down with Kelsey Chittick to talk about losing her husband suddenly, raising two children through grief, and learning to build a life she never expected. They…
Kelsey ChittickGuest
Jamie Lynn SiglerHost
But then if your husband is jumping at a birthday party and he just dies, it's sky zone.
If you don't make a joke about that, like what's the point of him doing that? I mean, only Nate would jump, jump and die.
And then, of course, he, like, shipped me away from Jamaica because he knew if I had been there, I would have been, you get the fuck up.
And so it was just kind of like, I'm going to be miserable for a long time, but there are enough winks that I'm going to keep believing that there's something really beautiful.
And turned out, you know, he had CTE, so it would have been a horrible life anyway.
Yeah, you know, I think, but before you get to, because you obviously couldn't see that or feel that for quite some time.
How do you grieve while mothering two young children who are also grieving their dad? What were the things that you did with them? What did they ask for? What did they teach you about how to grieve? Yeah.
Um, I remember the first night when we got home, it was like midnight and I got from the airport and I remember I sat down with them and this stays with me forever.
And I, I think anybody that has kids that is going through grief in the family, I said, um, Dad would have never left us if we weren't going to be OK.
But then if your husband is jumping at a birthday party and he just dies, it's sky zone.
If you don't make a joke about that, like what's the point of him doing that? I mean, only Nate would jump, jump and die.
And then, of course, he, like, shipped me away from Jamaica because he knew if I had been there, I would have been, you get the fuck up.
And so it was just kind of like, I'm going to be miserable for a long time, but there are enough winks that I'm going to keep believing that there's something really beautiful.
And turned out, you know, he had CTE, so it would have been a horrible life anyway.
Yeah, you know, I think, but before you get to, because you obviously couldn't see that or feel that for quite some time.
How do you grieve while mothering two young children who are also grieving their dad? What were the things that you did with them? What did they ask for? What did they teach you about how to grieve? Yeah.
Um, I remember the first night when we got home, it was like midnight and I got from the airport and I remember I sat down with them and this stays with me forever.
And I, I think anybody that has kids that is going through grief in the family, I said, um, Dad would have never left us if we weren't going to be OK.
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