Southern charm newcomer Molly O’Connell will always remember his late brother, who died at the age of 14.
“His name was Patrick and he was seriously intellectually disabled,” said O’Connell, 37, on Friday, February 21, the episode of “Reality Life with Kate Casey” podcast. “He was quadriplegic [and] He could only really move his head, couldn’t speak. Once I was born, he lived in an establishment that could take care of him because he needed a lot of care 24 hours a day. ”
O’Connell, who was adopted when she was a child, also explained that Patrick “died of a sepsis in my father’s arms”. She was 6 years old at the time of her death.
“He was sick all his life, in and out of [the] ICU, “said O’Connell, noting that Patrick’s death inspired him to pursue a fashionable career, including an appearance in cycle 16 America’s next top model.
“”[It gave me] The desire to [make the most of life]”She explained. “Often, I am paralyzed by my own fear, like music. I would probably have wanted to be a professional musician, singing [and on] Broadway, and I was very afraid about it. I have a lot of guilt not to continue whatever I want. »»
According to O’Connell, his guilt is “unconsciously” based on “not to take advantage of everything I am able to do”.
“I really did a lot and my parents supported this,” she said. “They never cared if I was smart or good in anything, they just wanted me to be happy and funny. They wanted me to have a good sense of humor, which I think I and Ian – my other brother – let’s do.
Navigate the death of Patrick more “caused [O’Connell] To do the most ”, she can in life. O’Connell also underwent therapy to help manage his death.
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“I had a lot of death in my family when I was young,” she said. “My brother died at the age of 6 and, in about six months, two of my uncles and a cousin died of cancer. But I was so young [and] I think they thought, “Oh, that doesn’t affect him much. I think it did.
Facing the trauma of multiple family dead, among other challenges, led O’Connell to play.
“I was told at a very young age that I was adopted before I could really understand that like 3- [or] 4 years old, ”she told Podcaster Kate Casey. “I was a relatively good child, they say, then in college, I just started acting a little.”
Regardless of O’Connell’s behavior problems, his parents have “always stuck” her and even paid for his therapy sessions.
“They tried to understand” what can we do to help him “and they continued to do this now [through my] late from the 1930s, “said O’Connell. “They always help me try to find new therapies and stuff.”
