Particular Forces exams individuals’ bodily skills, however Bode Miller realized that some duties would take a look at his feelings as properly.
In Us Weekly’s unique clip of the Monday, October 9, episode, Miller, 45, needed to full a backwards free fall into ice-cold water. In a confessional interview, he admitted that the problem had additional resonance for him due to his daughter Emmy, who by chance drowned in June 2018 when she was 19 months previous.
“I’d say dropping Emmy most likely helped my relationship with water,” Miller informed the digital camera. “I believe I used to be ignorant and had not sufficient respect or not sufficient consciousness and data about it earlier than. And now I believe I’ve concern and respect for it, however you must know tips on how to handle it.”
Bode shared Emmy with spouse Morgan Miller, whom he wed in 2012. The couple are the mother and father of sons Edward, 8, and Easton, 5, twin boys Asher and Aksel, 3, and daughter Scarlet, 22 months. Bode additionally shares daughter Neesyn, 15, with Chanel Johnson and son Samuel, 10, with Sara McKenna.

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Bode and Morgan, 36, welcomed Emmy in November 2016. Lower than two years later, Emmy died after falling right into a neighbor’s pool and drowning. “I opened the door, and he or she was floating facedown within the pool,” Morgan recalled in an August 2021 interview with CBS This Morning. “I jumped in, and I pulled her out. And I began CPR … Each time I shut my eyes at evening to fall asleep, it replays in my head. It occurs so quick.”
After Emmy’s demise, Bode inspired different mother and father to take water security severely and take a look at their household for example of what can occur. “As soon as it turns into one thing that everybody is conscious of, we are able to actually stop these sorts of tragedies,” he defined in the identical interview. “On the finish of the day, what occurred to us is horrible for us, and I believe lots of people shared our ache in that. However we wish to make it not occur for different folks.”
Earlier this yr, Morgan mirrored on Emmy’s passing whereas watching her different daughter, Scarlet, be taught to swim.
“Watching Scarlet swim immediately made me notice it’s been months the place I’ve been working from the debilitating ache of dropping a toddler … that intestine punch that makes it exhausting to breathe. I’ve gone darkish. I’ve refused to cry. I’ve simply wished to be numb,” she wrote through Instagram in Might. “However watching her swim immediately additionally made me notice that this numbness doesn’t defend me from feeling the ache, it prevents me from feeling the enjoyment … and with out pleasure, what’s the purpose? So after many darkish months, right here’s to a scary leap of dwelling totally, brazenly, and vulnerably and embracing the depths of the elemental human expertise of affection and loss.”
Particular Forces airs on Fox Mondays at 9 p.m. ET.