The Today Show star’s 24-year-old son, Jerome, tragically passed away at home almost one year ago
Eunice Power holding her cookbook(Image: @eunice_power_ / Instagram)
Eunice Power has opened up on the tragic loss of her young son, Jerome, ahead of the first anniversary of his death.
The Today Show chef’s 24-year-old son passed away suddenly in their home last May. He was a talented GAA player and an amateur jockey. Now, his mum Eunice is bravely sharing how she is coping with the grief almost one year later, saying, “Nothing helps. Keeping busy distracts me a bit. But nothing helps.
“People expect you to move on, but you’re stuck in this place.” The RTE chef, who also released her first cookbook last year, described her loving son as a ‘character’ who ‘everyone loved’.
“Jerome had such a presence. He was a character, he had time for everyone, and everyone loved him. I used to say I couldn’t wait for him to grow up and have kids and that I hoped they would be every bit as wild as him.” She told the Irish Independent.
Eunice also explained how she has found the healing process, saying, it ‘only comes from within,’ RSVP Live reports.
“Parents who have lost children. You don’t even know their story until you’re in it. People who understand the grief, who squeeze your hand as you pass them on the street or give you a knowing look, and there is a quiet comfort in that.
“But, ultimately, you’re alone with it all, the healing only comes from within; you have to deal with it yourself.” She explained.
Jerome was laid to rest on May 16th, and speaking at his funeral, Eunice said it was “hard to put into words” the “mischief, the force of energy” that was Jerome, who she described as a “loveable rogue” with a “glint in his eye”.
She also said her boy’s first love was horses from the age of just six years old and how “nothing could keep him away from the saddle” but she revealed that his “biggest talent was fun”, that he was “always on the go”. She spoke of how, in his teenage years, “I would take him with me to work” and praised his love of other sports, from hurling and more recently skiing, and how he would “throw himself into everything with tenacity and charm”.