Sept. 21, 2026
Cindy Crawford’s Son, Presley Gerber Dies at 27
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RSS Feed A shocking and sad development from overnight, the only son of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber has died at a California rehab facility. We don’t have a manner of death, but 27 year old Presely Gerber had been open in recent years about his mental health and addiction issues. Gerber shared his struggles on social media, with both his sister, Kaia and his mom cheering him on, publicly speaking about how proud they were of his courage. While we await details about what exactly happened to Presley, his family released a short statement asking for privacy.
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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks.
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Speaker 2: It is Monday, September 21st, and the son of supermodel Cindy Crawford has passed away at the age of 27. With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. We just wanted to hop on and get you caught up here. This is a developing story. We're just getting overnight. Robes, this is not a young man I was that familiar with and his name, Presley Gerber, but you immediately knew the name. and you started conjuring up images of this gorgeous family.
00:00:42
Speaker 3: Yes, my heart broke when I saw the news.
00:00:46
Speaker 4: Look, Cindy Crawford, we all know her, grew up with her, looked up to her, and yes, she has this beautiful, gorgeous family. Her good-looking, motorcycle-riding, tequila-owning company husband, Randy Gerber, and their gorgeous daughter, Kaya, who's a model and an actress, and yes, their gorgeous son, Presley, and Photos of them, they look like a happy, beautiful family that you just kind of look up to. Literally days ago, she gave an article about being an empty nester and all the changes and just how a mom and a woman feels about having her kids go off in the world and knowing that she couldn't control what they did.
00:01:29
Speaker 3: Or said and how they lived their lives, and she was learning to let go.
00:01:32
Speaker 1: She's what, 60 now, I think? She's 60.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 1: So this is coming to us, look, a lot more.
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Speaker 2: We expect more details, but all we know right now is that her son, 27-year-old Presley Gerber, passed away yesterday. at a rehab facility. That is according to the medical examiner, and we don't have any more details than that. Robes, there weren't articles or anything and things being written that he had gone into rehab, how long he had been there, what he had been there for.
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Speaker 1: We will get into.
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Speaker 2: Robes, of course, he had been open about mental health and his struggles with addiction.
00:02:04
Speaker 1: But, Robes, this is just another one of those reminders. Man, and you do.
00:02:11
Speaker 2: Look, she is regarded as one of the most beautiful women that's ever walked the earth. So, you're not surprised that she produced some pretty good looking offspring.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
00:02:19
Speaker 2: And there with the husband, that image, Rob, you just see this image of bordering on perfection. And just everybody's going through something, man.
00:02:28
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter how rich you are. It doesn't matter how famous you are. Mental health struggles affect just about every family in this country. And this is just another example that people need some grace. And when people are struggling, look, sometimes, and it seems like this family did everything they could for Presley over the years, at least it seems from a public standpoint. Kaya has spoken out about her brother's struggles, and she talked about how he was her teacher, how human he was, how he was willing to be open and honest about his mental health issues. And look, you can look at it from afar, from the Instagram photos, and think, wow, this kid was, as we talked about, attractive.
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Speaker 3: He was a model. He had a dream job.
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Speaker 4: I think most kids would say, wow, look at him on these international stages, a runway model.
00:03:24
Speaker 3: This is what people dream of. And yet still, he was struggling.
00:03:29
Speaker 2: And for some reason, sometimes with these stories, Robes, there's... I guess an assumption that somebody's supposed to have it made. Like what problems do you have? What do you have to be depressed about? What do you have to be upset about? You're rich and famous. Oh, yeah, by the way, you're gorgeous. Like what do you have to be upset or depressed about? And it's just always important, Robes and these, to take a beat.
00:03:55
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
00:03:55
Speaker 2: Man, it doesn't matter who they are, what you're looking at, how pretty that picture is on Instagram, and how famous or not.
00:04:02
Speaker 1: Famous, Robes. Folks are just struggling.
00:04:06
Speaker 2: Yes. And this is just another one of those examples. We keep counting how many people we are losing early. This is just too early, too young. You were pointing out to me every week, and sometimes it felt like every other day. Another influencer has died in some way, form, or fashion. And just this is... Oh, it's heartbreaking. To see a 27-year-old kid is dead, and we don't know.
00:04:28
Speaker 1: Why, what happened.
00:04:29
Speaker 2: There's no suggestion about anything here, folks, but it's just... It's just a damn shame. In a rehab facility.
00:04:34
Speaker 1: In a rehab facility. I wonder who was around him. Who was family around him.
00:04:38
Speaker 3: It's heartbreaking.
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Speaker 1: How it happened.
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Speaker 4: It is.
00:04:40
Speaker 2: It's... It's awful, but this is a young man, Roe 2-4. I didn't keep up as much, but this is when he's 27, but at least for the past four or five plus years, he's been talking very openly about his struggles.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. In fact, I believe it was last December, so a matter of months ago, he talked about going to a facility in Mexico. And there are all these different hallucinogenic drugs that some people swear by that help with opioid addictions, even with PTSD following some servicemen and women who come back from the war. So he had gone through this ayahuasca-like substance and said that it had transformed him and changed him. he was being open about seeking mental.
00:05:24
Speaker 3: Health answers in all forms. And look, he did have means.
00:05:27
Speaker 4: He did have the ability to go around the world and go to the best or the most, even if they were cutting edge or maybe not even your traditional path. He was trying different paths and looking for answers and trying to get help. And he described and talked about the antidepressants he was on and what he did to try and deal with the panic attacks that he had dealt with for much of his life. So yes, he was very open about his struggles and had checked himself into different facilities. So we didn't know he was in one currently, but I can't recall. I'm sure this happens, but it was a little shocking to know he was in a facility getting help. How do you die when you're at a facility seeking help for your issues?
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Speaker 2: And again, we have no idea at this point of a manner of death. There is not a suggestion at all, right, Robes, of him taking his own life or if this was a medical issue of some kind. That is not known at this point. We do want to make clear. But what we know about him, Robes, at least over the years, he has talked about, you just mentioned the substance abuse and trying to get help, but he did a thing. He called it Mental Health Mondays. Yes. Like this wasn't just a one-off and he did an interview somewhere. This is something he kept up talking about for quite some time. And he obviously... It meant something to him. He called it a podcast.
00:06:46
Speaker 1: What did he say? It was 24-7.
00:06:47
Speaker 4: Yep.
00:06:48
Speaker 2: Your mental health for me and recovering and dealing with it. He says a 24-7 job for him.
00:06:53
Speaker 1: And what he does. Ropes, I'm not, you tell me what benzos are. What are those for? Benzodiazepine, is that what they're called?
00:07:03
Speaker 4: I actually, I've heard people talk about them all the time, but I don't know necessarily. I'm lucky enough to have never had to go down that path, but it's supposedly a prescription medicine that slows down your brain and your nervous system to help you calm down to sleep or to stop seizures. So I think it's technically an anti-seizure medication, but it's used as an antidepressant, or certainly to help people who are maybe going through a panic attack or have anxiety.
00:07:35
Speaker 1: That sort of a thing.
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Speaker 2: I mentioned that because that was a part of a social media post, I think December you were talking about, right, Robes, in which he called them benzos is what in his post, but he said the benzos weren't working. There are some ups and downs, but he listed several other drugs, Valium, Xanax.
00:07:54
Speaker 1: Benzodiazepine.
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Speaker 4: Those are all in the category of benzos. So Xanax, Valium, Ativan, and Klonopin are all anti-anxiety reducing medicines. And I'll be honest, I've been on Ativan and I was prescribed Ativan when I was diagnosed with cancer. I started having panic attacks. I had never had them before in my life. obviously that would make sense. And so for that year, while I was going through chemo and all of my surgeries, I pretty much took Ativan once a day. And so I do have experience with that. And it does, it calms you down. It prevents panic attacks. It relaxes your nervous system.
00:08:29
Speaker 2: He was on all of these things, right? He listed them. That post was eventually taken down. It was deleted before all of this. But this is a young man who's I mean, he's talked very openly about the stuff he's been on. He's talked openly about trying to get off of it. He's talked very openly about his depression. I didn't see necessarily what, I mean, it doesn't have to be a cause, but this is a young man who since the age of 15 had a modeling contract. He started walking runways like his mama. I don't know what age she was when she started, but he was a teenager.
00:09:00
Speaker 1: He was 15, 16.
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Speaker 2: I think his first runway show, they say he was 16 years old.
00:09:04
Speaker 1: That's incredible. That is incredible.
00:09:06
Speaker 3: Right? Yes, Calvin Klein, Dolce & Gabbana, Celine.
00:09:10
Speaker 4: The first one was Moschino, I think. That was his big first runway show. But yes, this is stuff that dreams are made of.
00:09:17
Speaker 3: He had a career.
00:09:19
Speaker 4: He obviously had a platform, and he had a very close, tight-knit family. When you hear Kaya talk about it, Cindy talk about it, and even him, they describe.
00:09:30
Speaker 3: How tight-knit and how closely Their family was. He had support. So that's what's so scary and sad about.
00:09:37
Speaker 4: Again, we don't know what happened specifically, but we do know that he was struggling.
00:09:42
Speaker 3: And I just saw there was a recent post.
00:09:46
Speaker 4: His birthday, he just celebrated his 27th birthday in July. And just to read what Cindy had put up there, just saying, I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of the man you've become, but I'll always see you as my little boy.
00:10:04
Speaker 3: Love you. This was just, what, two months ago.
00:10:06
Speaker 4: And she put up pictures of him as a child to mark his 27th birthday.
00:10:10
Speaker 3: We all do that as moms. We go back.
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Speaker 4: And as dad, you put those posts up there too. So my heart breaks for her and then how close he and his sister were. Kaya talks about him all the time. They were thick as thieves. And so this has got to just be the most horrific thing that a family could imagine.
00:10:27
Speaker 2: And we don't want to make sure, and I know what you're saying there, but the dad's not chopped liver. It just happens that we know her so well, of course, Cindy Crawford, then we know the daughter has a new show on Hulu right now. She is a supermodel in her own right. However, in most people's day-to-day life, The dad might have more of an impact on you if you drink margaritas.
00:10:49
Speaker 3: Casamigos.
00:10:50
Speaker 1: Everywhere you go, they offer you that stuff.
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Speaker 3: Casamigos.
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Speaker 4: I see him and George Clooney on buses or trucks constantly passing by us on their motorcycles.
00:10:59
Speaker 1: With no helmets. Looking cool. Can't look cool.
00:11:02
Speaker 4: Yes.
00:11:02
Speaker 2: But yes, we are very familiar with that. But yeah, the dad is a very successful businessman. And those two look alike. They have the same build. They have the same look.
00:11:12
Speaker 1: Oh, yes.
00:11:12
Speaker 4: He and his dad is blonde like his dad. But and look, this is they it seems like this to the point where it's a model family, you know, pun intended here. But yes, they're good looking.
00:11:22
Speaker 3: Yes, they're attractive.
00:11:23
Speaker 4: But they've had a solid marriage. They've been married for 28 years. You don't see that very often. A supermodel with a successful businessman. They've created this beautiful family. They've been together for 28 years. And just, it's a reminder, everybody struggles.
00:11:38
Speaker 3: Everybody has issues.
00:11:40
Speaker 4: We always want to assume that other people's lives are better than ours, or we judge people thinking, like you said at the beginning, how could they complain?
00:11:47
Speaker 3: Look at their life. People have problems.
00:11:50
Speaker 1: All right, well, stay with us, folks.
00:11:51
Speaker 2: We will share the very brief statement, at least, we have gotten from Presley Gerber's family in just a moment, and also want to share something we were able to dig up having to do with the connection, the connection between depression and Suicide.
00:12:06
Speaker 1: Stay here.
00:12:08
Speaker 2: All right, we continue here on Amy and TJ. Presley Gerber, 27-year-old son of supermodel Cindy Crawford, dead at the age of 27, yes, at a rehab facility. According to the medical examiner, that's all we've gotten, at least so far. No cause of death. Roves the Only one short statement being going around. I believe it was emailed to several outlets from a representative from the family. But yes, confirming, in fact, what has happened.
00:12:41
Speaker 4: Yes, and they kept this statement very short with no details, simply saying the family is asking for privacy during this very difficult and painful time.
00:12:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and I was just seeing, speaking of how close-knit this.
00:12:55
Speaker 4: Family was, how many brothers do you know They've got a name tattooed on them, and he had a bunch of tattoos. It might be mom. It might be a girlfriend. He had his sister's name tattooed on his arm. That's how close those two were.
00:13:10
Speaker 1: That's cute.
00:13:10
Speaker 2: And, you know, coming up in that family, the stuff they had to be exposed to, what the family tried to protect them from, but also tried to get that. Look, they both became models. So they were around that and made some kind of an impression.
00:13:25
Speaker 1: And look, Robes, you're They have seen.
00:13:29
Speaker 2: And experienced things in such a way from birth that most people cannot imagine.
00:13:33
Speaker 4: Yeah. And I'm sure being called nepo baby your whole life can't be a fun experience.
00:13:39
Speaker 3: Now, a lot of people would say, hey, sign me up. I'd love to have that.
00:13:43
Speaker 4: But that has become this thing that folks throw around and throw at people. And I can only imagine it must be difficult to come out of the spotlight of your parents. and to have to live up to expectations and have people always comparing you. Don't know how much that played into it, but you hear a lot of folks talk about that and how it's unfair. It's just automatically criticized and you can't actually have success in your own right because you didn't really earn it.
00:14:09
Speaker 1: No, some people, you didn't earn it, but some people are blessed with it.
00:14:13
Speaker 2: And if you have the genes of one of the most beautiful women ever, congratulations, you won the lottery. You move ahead of a lot of models.
00:14:21
Speaker 3: You do.
00:14:22
Speaker 4: Period.
00:14:22
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that.
00:14:23
Speaker 2: Let's say the same netball stuff with some director has his director's son.
00:14:27
Speaker 1: That's not what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 3: Correct.
00:14:29
Speaker 1: Right, right. It's different. Yeah. I'm gorgeous. Look at my mama. What do you want me to do? I got no choice. But in that part, and Kaya looks just like her mom.
00:14:38
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, she looks just like her mom.
00:14:40
Speaker 1: It's wild.
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Speaker 2: But Rose, this is always worth noting in There's some disagreement. They can't really nail down, Robes, the connection between depression and suicide. What everybody agrees, obviously, if you have depression and the more severe it is, the more likely you are to end up trying to take your own life. They agree with that. But, Robes, I was surprised that the numbers were as low as they have. But the connection between the two, 15 to 20 percent of people treated for depression die by suicide. Now, Robes, the reason a lot of people take issue with that in the medical community is because it says 15% to 20% of people treated for depression, somebody who has gone in and tried to seek help, somebody who is on medication and whatnot. Robes, there's a ton of people out there who never go get that help.
00:15:25
Speaker 4: Yes, who don't have access to that help, who are maybe embarrassed to ask for that help. So, yes, that number is probably significantly higher because of all the folks who can't or won't or.
00:15:39
Speaker 3: just don't have what it takes to ask for help. I mean, that makes sense.
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Speaker 2: The other one that got me here, Rob, 60%, 60% of people who die by suicide have some sort of mood disorder, meaning that person did have anxiety, did have, it doesn't have to be depression, some type of mood disorder.
00:16:01
Speaker 1: And Rob, it's just terrifying. We've all had our... Yes.
00:16:04
Speaker 2: You think about just how many people just keep going. Just keep going. Depression, keep going. Treat it for depression. Just keep going, keep going.
00:16:12
Speaker 1: Never get.
00:16:13
Speaker 2: Those people are walking around us at higher risk for doing harm to themselves. And sometimes, Ro, we just can't be dismissive.
00:16:21
Speaker 1: This is.
00:16:22
Speaker 2: Here's another example. If anything, we just take a moment to remind ourselves of that, baby.
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Speaker 3: It is heartbreaking.
00:16:29
Speaker 4: And look, we hope we'll get some more answers about what happened to this young man.
00:16:35
Speaker 3: But in the meantime.
00:16:37
Speaker 4: I'm just thinking about Cindy Crawford, Randy Gerber, Kaya Gerber, and just how horrific this must be for the three of them and my heart and our hearts go out to them and for everyone and anyone who is suffering from either depression or any sort of addiction. This is something that we have to wake up and do better about for so many people who are impacted by this. But we always appreciate you listening to us, everyone. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes.
00:17:06
Speaker 3: We'll talk soon.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks.
00:00:12
Speaker 2: It is Monday, September 21st, and the son of supermodel Cindy Crawford has passed away at the age of 27. With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. We just wanted to hop on and get you caught up here. This is a developing story. We're just getting overnight. Robes, this is not a young man I was that familiar with and his name, Presley Gerber, but you immediately knew the name. and you started conjuring up images of this gorgeous family.
00:00:42
Speaker 3: Yes, my heart broke when I saw the news.
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Speaker 4: Look, Cindy Crawford, we all know her, grew up with her, looked up to her, and yes, she has this beautiful, gorgeous family. Her good-looking, motorcycle-riding, tequila-owning company husband, Randy Gerber, and their gorgeous daughter, Kaya, who's a model and an actress, and yes, their gorgeous son, Presley, and Photos of them, they look like a happy, beautiful family that you just kind of look up to. Literally days ago, she gave an article about being an empty nester and all the changes and just how a mom and a woman feels about having her kids go off in the world and knowing that she couldn't control what they did.
00:01:29
Speaker 3: Or said and how they lived their lives, and she was learning to let go.
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Speaker 1: She's what, 60 now, I think? She's 60.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 1: So this is coming to us, look, a lot more.
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Speaker 2: We expect more details, but all we know right now is that her son, 27-year-old Presley Gerber, passed away yesterday. at a rehab facility. That is according to the medical examiner, and we don't have any more details than that. Robes, there weren't articles or anything and things being written that he had gone into rehab, how long he had been there, what he had been there for.
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Speaker 1: We will get into.
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Speaker 2: Robes, of course, he had been open about mental health and his struggles with addiction.
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Speaker 1: But, Robes, this is just another one of those reminders. Man, and you do.
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Speaker 2: Look, she is regarded as one of the most beautiful women that's ever walked the earth. So, you're not surprised that she produced some pretty good looking offspring.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: And there with the husband, that image, Rob, you just see this image of bordering on perfection. And just everybody's going through something, man.
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Speaker 4: It doesn't matter how rich you are. It doesn't matter how famous you are. Mental health struggles affect just about every family in this country. And this is just another example that people need some grace. And when people are struggling, look, sometimes, and it seems like this family did everything they could for Presley over the years, at least it seems from a public standpoint. Kaya has spoken out about her brother's struggles, and she talked about how he was her teacher, how human he was, how he was willing to be open and honest about his mental health issues. And look, you can look at it from afar, from the Instagram photos, and think, wow, this kid was, as we talked about, attractive.
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Speaker 3: He was a model. He had a dream job.
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Speaker 4: I think most kids would say, wow, look at him on these international stages, a runway model.
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Speaker 3: This is what people dream of. And yet still, he was struggling.
00:03:29
Speaker 2: And for some reason, sometimes with these stories, Robes, there's... I guess an assumption that somebody's supposed to have it made. Like what problems do you have? What do you have to be depressed about? What do you have to be upset about? You're rich and famous. Oh, yeah, by the way, you're gorgeous. Like what do you have to be upset or depressed about? And it's just always important, Robes and these, to take a beat.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
00:03:55
Speaker 2: Man, it doesn't matter who they are, what you're looking at, how pretty that picture is on Instagram, and how famous or not.
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Speaker 1: Famous, Robes. Folks are just struggling.
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Speaker 2: Yes. And this is just another one of those examples. We keep counting how many people we are losing early. This is just too early, too young. You were pointing out to me every week, and sometimes it felt like every other day. Another influencer has died in some way, form, or fashion. And just this is... Oh, it's heartbreaking. To see a 27-year-old kid is dead, and we don't know.
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Speaker 1: Why, what happened.
00:04:29
Speaker 2: There's no suggestion about anything here, folks, but it's just... It's just a damn shame. In a rehab facility.
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Speaker 1: In a rehab facility. I wonder who was around him. Who was family around him.
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Speaker 3: It's heartbreaking.
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Speaker 1: How it happened.
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Speaker 4: It is.
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Speaker 2: It's... It's awful, but this is a young man, Roe 2-4. I didn't keep up as much, but this is when he's 27, but at least for the past four or five plus years, he's been talking very openly about his struggles.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. In fact, I believe it was last December, so a matter of months ago, he talked about going to a facility in Mexico. And there are all these different hallucinogenic drugs that some people swear by that help with opioid addictions, even with PTSD following some servicemen and women who come back from the war. So he had gone through this ayahuasca-like substance and said that it had transformed him and changed him. he was being open about seeking mental.
00:05:24
Speaker 3: Health answers in all forms. And look, he did have means.
00:05:27
Speaker 4: He did have the ability to go around the world and go to the best or the most, even if they were cutting edge or maybe not even your traditional path. He was trying different paths and looking for answers and trying to get help. And he described and talked about the antidepressants he was on and what he did to try and deal with the panic attacks that he had dealt with for much of his life. So yes, he was very open about his struggles and had checked himself into different facilities. So we didn't know he was in one currently, but I can't recall. I'm sure this happens, but it was a little shocking to know he was in a facility getting help. How do you die when you're at a facility seeking help for your issues?
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Speaker 2: And again, we have no idea at this point of a manner of death. There is not a suggestion at all, right, Robes, of him taking his own life or if this was a medical issue of some kind. That is not known at this point. We do want to make clear. But what we know about him, Robes, at least over the years, he has talked about, you just mentioned the substance abuse and trying to get help, but he did a thing. He called it Mental Health Mondays. Yes. Like this wasn't just a one-off and he did an interview somewhere. This is something he kept up talking about for quite some time. And he obviously... It meant something to him. He called it a podcast.
00:06:46
Speaker 1: What did he say? It was 24-7.
00:06:47
Speaker 4: Yep.
00:06:48
Speaker 2: Your mental health for me and recovering and dealing with it. He says a 24-7 job for him.
00:06:53
Speaker 1: And what he does. Ropes, I'm not, you tell me what benzos are. What are those for? Benzodiazepine, is that what they're called?
00:07:03
Speaker 4: I actually, I've heard people talk about them all the time, but I don't know necessarily. I'm lucky enough to have never had to go down that path, but it's supposedly a prescription medicine that slows down your brain and your nervous system to help you calm down to sleep or to stop seizures. So I think it's technically an anti-seizure medication, but it's used as an antidepressant, or certainly to help people who are maybe going through a panic attack or have anxiety.
00:07:35
Speaker 1: That sort of a thing.
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Speaker 2: I mentioned that because that was a part of a social media post, I think December you were talking about, right, Robes, in which he called them benzos is what in his post, but he said the benzos weren't working. There are some ups and downs, but he listed several other drugs, Valium, Xanax.
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Speaker 1: Benzodiazepine.
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Speaker 4: Those are all in the category of benzos. So Xanax, Valium, Ativan, and Klonopin are all anti-anxiety reducing medicines. And I'll be honest, I've been on Ativan and I was prescribed Ativan when I was diagnosed with cancer. I started having panic attacks. I had never had them before in my life. obviously that would make sense. And so for that year, while I was going through chemo and all of my surgeries, I pretty much took Ativan once a day. And so I do have experience with that. And it does, it calms you down. It prevents panic attacks. It relaxes your nervous system.
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Speaker 2: He was on all of these things, right? He listed them. That post was eventually taken down. It was deleted before all of this. But this is a young man who's I mean, he's talked very openly about the stuff he's been on. He's talked openly about trying to get off of it. He's talked very openly about his depression. I didn't see necessarily what, I mean, it doesn't have to be a cause, but this is a young man who since the age of 15 had a modeling contract. He started walking runways like his mama. I don't know what age she was when she started, but he was a teenager.
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Speaker 1: He was 15, 16.
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Speaker 2: I think his first runway show, they say he was 16 years old.
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Speaker 1: That's incredible. That is incredible.
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Speaker 3: Right? Yes, Calvin Klein, Dolce & Gabbana, Celine.
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Speaker 4: The first one was Moschino, I think. That was his big first runway show. But yes, this is stuff that dreams are made of.
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Speaker 3: He had a career.
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Speaker 4: He obviously had a platform, and he had a very close, tight-knit family. When you hear Kaya talk about it, Cindy talk about it, and even him, they describe.
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Speaker 3: How tight-knit and how closely Their family was. He had support. So that's what's so scary and sad about.
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Speaker 4: Again, we don't know what happened specifically, but we do know that he was struggling.
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Speaker 3: And I just saw there was a recent post.
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Speaker 4: His birthday, he just celebrated his 27th birthday in July. And just to read what Cindy had put up there, just saying, I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of the man you've become, but I'll always see you as my little boy.
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Speaker 3: Love you. This was just, what, two months ago.
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Speaker 4: And she put up pictures of him as a child to mark his 27th birthday.
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Speaker 3: We all do that as moms. We go back.
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Speaker 4: And as dad, you put those posts up there too. So my heart breaks for her and then how close he and his sister were. Kaya talks about him all the time. They were thick as thieves. And so this has got to just be the most horrific thing that a family could imagine.
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Speaker 2: And we don't want to make sure, and I know what you're saying there, but the dad's not chopped liver. It just happens that we know her so well, of course, Cindy Crawford, then we know the daughter has a new show on Hulu right now. She is a supermodel in her own right. However, in most people's day-to-day life, The dad might have more of an impact on you if you drink margaritas.
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Speaker 3: Casamigos.
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Speaker 1: Everywhere you go, they offer you that stuff.
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Speaker 3: Casamigos.
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Speaker 4: I see him and George Clooney on buses or trucks constantly passing by us on their motorcycles.
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Speaker 1: With no helmets. Looking cool. Can't look cool.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 2: But yes, we are very familiar with that. But yeah, the dad is a very successful businessman. And those two look alike. They have the same build. They have the same look.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 4: He and his dad is blonde like his dad. But and look, this is they it seems like this to the point where it's a model family, you know, pun intended here. But yes, they're good looking.
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Speaker 3: Yes, they're attractive.
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Speaker 4: But they've had a solid marriage. They've been married for 28 years. You don't see that very often. A supermodel with a successful businessman. They've created this beautiful family. They've been together for 28 years. And just, it's a reminder, everybody struggles.
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Speaker 3: Everybody has issues.
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Speaker 4: We always want to assume that other people's lives are better than ours, or we judge people thinking, like you said at the beginning, how could they complain?
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Speaker 3: Look at their life. People have problems.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, stay with us, folks.
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Speaker 2: We will share the very brief statement, at least, we have gotten from Presley Gerber's family in just a moment, and also want to share something we were able to dig up having to do with the connection, the connection between depression and Suicide.
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Speaker 1: Stay here.
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Speaker 2: All right, we continue here on Amy and TJ. Presley Gerber, 27-year-old son of supermodel Cindy Crawford, dead at the age of 27, yes, at a rehab facility. According to the medical examiner, that's all we've gotten, at least so far. No cause of death. Roves the Only one short statement being going around. I believe it was emailed to several outlets from a representative from the family. But yes, confirming, in fact, what has happened.
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Speaker 4: Yes, and they kept this statement very short with no details, simply saying the family is asking for privacy during this very difficult and painful time.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and I was just seeing, speaking of how close-knit this.
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Speaker 4: Family was, how many brothers do you know They've got a name tattooed on them, and he had a bunch of tattoos. It might be mom. It might be a girlfriend. He had his sister's name tattooed on his arm. That's how close those two were.
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Speaker 1: That's cute.
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Speaker 2: And, you know, coming up in that family, the stuff they had to be exposed to, what the family tried to protect them from, but also tried to get that. Look, they both became models. So they were around that and made some kind of an impression.
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Speaker 1: And look, Robes, you're They have seen.
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Speaker 2: And experienced things in such a way from birth that most people cannot imagine.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. And I'm sure being called nepo baby your whole life can't be a fun experience.
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Speaker 3: Now, a lot of people would say, hey, sign me up. I'd love to have that.
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Speaker 4: But that has become this thing that folks throw around and throw at people. And I can only imagine it must be difficult to come out of the spotlight of your parents. and to have to live up to expectations and have people always comparing you. Don't know how much that played into it, but you hear a lot of folks talk about that and how it's unfair. It's just automatically criticized and you can't actually have success in your own right because you didn't really earn it.
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Speaker 1: No, some people, you didn't earn it, but some people are blessed with it.
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Speaker 2: And if you have the genes of one of the most beautiful women ever, congratulations, you won the lottery. You move ahead of a lot of models.
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Speaker 3: You do.
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Speaker 4: Period.
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Speaker 1: I'm okay with that.
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Speaker 2: Let's say the same netball stuff with some director has his director's son.
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Speaker 1: That's not what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 3: Correct.
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Speaker 1: Right, right. It's different. Yeah. I'm gorgeous. Look at my mama. What do you want me to do? I got no choice. But in that part, and Kaya looks just like her mom.
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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, she looks just like her mom.
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Speaker 1: It's wild.
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Speaker 2: But Rose, this is always worth noting in There's some disagreement. They can't really nail down, Robes, the connection between depression and suicide. What everybody agrees, obviously, if you have depression and the more severe it is, the more likely you are to end up trying to take your own life. They agree with that. But, Robes, I was surprised that the numbers were as low as they have. But the connection between the two, 15 to 20 percent of people treated for depression die by suicide. Now, Robes, the reason a lot of people take issue with that in the medical community is because it says 15% to 20% of people treated for depression, somebody who has gone in and tried to seek help, somebody who is on medication and whatnot. Robes, there's a ton of people out there who never go get that help.
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Speaker 4: Yes, who don't have access to that help, who are maybe embarrassed to ask for that help. So, yes, that number is probably significantly higher because of all the folks who can't or won't or.
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Speaker 3: just don't have what it takes to ask for help. I mean, that makes sense.
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Speaker 2: The other one that got me here, Rob, 60%, 60% of people who die by suicide have some sort of mood disorder, meaning that person did have anxiety, did have, it doesn't have to be depression, some type of mood disorder.
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Speaker 1: And Rob, it's just terrifying. We've all had our... Yes.
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Speaker 2: You think about just how many people just keep going. Just keep going. Depression, keep going. Treat it for depression. Just keep going, keep going.
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Speaker 1: Never get.
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Speaker 2: Those people are walking around us at higher risk for doing harm to themselves. And sometimes, Ro, we just can't be dismissive.
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Speaker 1: This is.
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Speaker 2: Here's another example. If anything, we just take a moment to remind ourselves of that, baby.
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Speaker 3: It is heartbreaking.
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Speaker 4: And look, we hope we'll get some more answers about what happened to this young man.
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Speaker 3: But in the meantime.
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Speaker 4: I'm just thinking about Cindy Crawford, Randy Gerber, Kaya Gerber, and just how horrific this must be for the three of them and my heart and our hearts go out to them and for everyone and anyone who is suffering from either depression or any sort of addiction. This is something that we have to wake up and do better about for so many people who are impacted by this. But we always appreciate you listening to us, everyone. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes.
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Speaker 3: We'll talk soon.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.