The family of Presley Gerber is “beyond heartbroken” and took to Instagram over the weekend to publicly share their grief a month after his apparent overdose death at age 27.
Supermodel Cindy Crawford and businessman Rande Gerber, his mother and father, took the lead with identical notes on their respective platforms. Their son died Sept. 20 at a Los Angeles sober-living home.
“We feel so blessed to have had Presley in our lives for 27 years,” the family said on Instagram on Sunday, mourning the “sweet, beautiful soul who loved and is loved, now and forever” and expressing pride at the “kindness and vulnerability” he brought to the world. “We are grateful for the outpouring of love and support from so many who know and love our family and even strangers who feel our pain. Til we meet again, our sweet boy. We love you forever, Mom, Dad and Kaia.”
Little sister Kaia Gerber, 25, struggled to capture what it was like to look up to him as a brother and then lose him, starting with a silent video of them dancing as young children that served as a wordless tribute.
“I love you the bluest, to the moon and back and back again, forever big brother,” the actress captioned her post.
“I don’t have the words, and maybe the tiny mercy is that we didn’t need them all along,” she wrote. “Words fail and words subtract and words summarize and words always lack truth. And how naíve of me to believe that language could transcend grief.
“My articulation is no match against this, the magnitude of losing you. I am, quite literally, down on my f—ing knees.”
At the same time, she would not trade the time she had with him for anything, “The Shards” actress said.
“Give me the whole impossible bargain,” Gerber wrote. “Give me every year with you and then give me this.”
She ended with a photo of the two of them in profile, also as children, standing side-by-side where sea met sand on a beach and gazing at the ocean, followed by a photo of poet Marie Howe’s “The Gate” that begins, “I had no idea that the gate I would step through/to finally enter this world/would be the space my brother’s body made.”
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