Via SI:
“I don’t have my phone and she sends me a message saying she loved me,” Ensminger Jr. told Sports Illustrated. “I was in and out of a nightmare, not being able to tell what was real and what wasn’t.”
“I can remember laying in the hospital bed repeating myself saying it wasn’t real and then one of the hardest things I’m dealing with is that I missed her text and I missed her call,” he told the publication.
“It is by far the most pain, angst and terror and just darkest time of my life and I honestly don’t know how long it will last because I still don’t believe it,” Ensminger Jr. continued. “I don’t want to believe it.”
While Ensminger Jr. was in the hospital, he received a phone call from his father Steven Ensminger, the offensive coordinator for the Louisiana State University football team, who greatly helped him cope.
“The one voice that got on the phone with me that was clear and strong and supportive and confident while I was laying in that bed was my dad right before he walked out for warm-ups,” he continued to recount. “I could barely speak.”
“I couldn’t hold myself together and he said, ‘Son, you will get through this, it’s what we do. We face the darkest times in our lives and it’s what we do, we get through it. And I will take care of you and I’ll be there for you to keep you strong. You’re my one and only son, and my namesake and I love you and I can promise you we will get through this,’ Ensminger Jr. said.
Such a tragedy.
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