{"id":2002799,"date":"2023-08-16T17:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T21:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/granger-smith-opens-up-about-agreement-he-made-with-wife-following-tragic-death-of-3-year-old-son\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T17:11:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T21:11:58","slug":"granger-smith-opens-up-about-agreement-he-made-with-wife-following-tragic-death-of-3-year-old-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/granger-smith-opens-up-about-agreement-he-made-with-wife-following-tragic-death-of-3-year-old-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Granger Smith shares &#8216;agreement&#8217; with wife after son&#8217;s tragic death."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgranger-smith-opens-up-about-agreement-he-made-with-wife-following-tragic-death-of-3-year-old-son%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2002799&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Country Star Granger Smith \u200bOpens Up About Keeping His Family Together After Tragic Loss<\/h2>\n<p>Former country star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/country-singer-granger-smith-announces-his-final-tour-says-hes-leaving-music-to-focus-on-faith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Granger Smith<\/a> recently\u2063 shared \u200dthe &#8220;agreement&#8221;\u200c he made with his wife \u2064Amber Bartlett to preserve their family unity following the devastating accidental drowning of their 3-year-old son in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/surrendered-to-god-country-singer-granger-smith-says-faith-saved-my-life-after-losing-his-child\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">43-year-old<\/a> singer and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-agent-vaccine-mandate-is-a-national-security-disaster\/\" title=\"Border Patrol Agent: Vaccine mandate is a national security disaster\">wife recounted<\/a> the heart-wrenching day when their\u2064 son River was\u200d rushed to the hospital after a \u2063pool accident at their Texas home. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/parents\/dads\/granger-smith-didnt-let-sons-death-end-marriage-rcna99540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Today<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/father-arrested-jailed-for-contempt-after-referring-to-his-daughter-as-she\/\" title=\"Father Arrested, Jailed For Contempt After Referring To His Daughter As \u2018She\u2019\">doctors informed<\/a> them that there\u2063 was &#8220;zero chance&#8221; of their \u200clittle boy&#8217;s survival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We sought a second opinion,&#8221; Smith revealed. &#8220;The second team confirmed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-alive-says-influencer-lil-tay-who-claims-alarming-false-death-announcement-came-from-hackers\/\" title=\"Influencer Lil Tay denies death rumors, blames hackers.\">devastating\u200b news<\/a>. \u2063Sympathetically, they told us, &#8216;There is no \u200cchance.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After receiving this heartbreaking prognosis, the couple\u200c found solace in a serene garden. &#8220;We sat \u2064there, completely stunned,&#8221;\u200c Smith shared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then, in \u2063that moment, we \u2064looked at each other and acknowledged the statistics. We knew that\u2063 many couples don&#8217;t survive such\u2062 a tragedy,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The odds \u2063were against us. The world seemed to\u200b be against us, and people can be cruel and perpetuate negativity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHe\u2019s my\u200c husband and\u2063 I love him so \u2063much,&#8221;\u2064 Amber Bartlett tells \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LaKO1WBr7r\">https:\/\/t.co\/LaKO1WBr7r<\/a>. &#8220;We\u2019re both walking through the exact same grief.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D27gem1pmP\">https:\/\/t.co\/D27gem1pmP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TODAY (@TODAYshow) \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TODAYshow\/status\/1691590611638333599?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;So, right\u200d then\u200c and there, we\u2062 made an agreement. It was almost like \u2062a business agreement,&#8221; Smith revealed. &#8220;We said, &#8216;Okay,\u200b we&#8217;re going to face \u2062this together. \u200bThe world will come at us,\u2064 we&#8217;ll feel immense \u200bpain, and we&#8217;ll encounter enormous obstacles, but \u200cwe will not let \u200cit tear us \u200bapart. We have\u2064 to make this agreement for the sake of our\u200b other two children, at \u2064the very least.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Smith, who was with River at the time of \u200bthe accident, credited his wife for being the pillar of \u2064strength\u2062 that held their\u2062 marriage together during the grieving process.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK \u2064HERE TO GET THE\u200d DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At \u200bany moment, she could have said, &#8216;How could \u200byou let this\u200b happen to\u200b our \u2063boy? How could you\u2062 turn your back on our baby?'&#8221; the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/granger-smith-opens-up-about-agreement-he-made-with-wife-following-tragic-death-of-3-year-old-son\/\" title=\"Granger Smith shares 'agreement' with wife after son's tragic death.\">country singer admitted<\/a>. &#8220;In her deepest and darkest moments of anger, guilt, or depression, she could have \u2064easily blamed \u2062me for what happened in the backyard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But she never did. Not once,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Not ever. And if she had slipped up in her worst, darkest moment just once, it\u2063 could have inflicted an irreparable wound in my soul. It might have been the thing that tore us apart forever. But she didn&#8217;t do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bartlett attributed her ability\u2062 to avoid blaming \u2064Smith for \u2063their son&#8217;s death to &#8220;the grace of \u2064God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I simply never felt \u200dthat way,&#8221; \u200dshe expressed. &#8220;This wasn&#8217;t something\u2064 he did or something I\u2064 failed to do. We are a couple. How could I ever place blame on him?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2062 just didn&#8217;t,&#8221; Bartlett continued. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t have an answer as to &#8216;why?&#8217; He&#8217;s my husband, and I love him so\u200d much. We&#8217;re both navigating through \u200cthe same overwhelming grief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Smith and Bartlett have four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/granger-smith-and-wife-amber-made-agreement-stay-together-death-3-year-old-son\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">children\u200c together<\/a>: London, their daughter; Lincoln, their older\u2062 son; River, their\u200b late son; and Maverick, their fourth son, who was born in August 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>accidental drowning in 2019. Granger Smith, a former country star, revealed the &#8220;agreement&#8221; he and his wife, Amber Bartlett, made to preserve their family. They discussed the day their 3-year-old son, River, was hurried to the hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":2002800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}