Mikaela Shiffrin gave insight into how she navigated the grief following her father’s death, and she may never stop grieving, something she is O.K. with.
“It’s not linear. It’s not a climb up a mountain,” Shiffrin wrote in an essay published by The Players’ Tribune on Thursday. “It’s more like a maze. Some days, I feel O.K. Some days, it still feels as raw as when we walked into the hospital after our 10-hour flight home and saw him on the ventilator.”
Shiffrin’s father suddenly in February 2020 after an accident, and she detailed the call she and her mother received, the emotions she felt during the 10-hour plane ride and the nine hours she laid with him in the hospital as he was on a ventilator. But going through the pain of recounting the memories with him, his influence on her skiing and his death have a purpose.
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