Ivanka Trump Opens Up on Losses in Podcast Interview

Ivanka Trump became visibly emotional during a candid 90-minute interview on the "Diary of a CEO" podcast, hosted by Steven Bartlett and released this week, as she opened up about profound personal losses and family challenges. The 44-year-old former White House adviser, daughter of President Donald Trump, discussed the sudden death of her mother, her husband Jared Kushner's battle with thyroid cancer, and the terrifying moment she witnessed an assassination attempt on her father while poolside with her children.

The conversation, which aired on April 8, delved into Ivanka Trump's grief over her mother, Ivana Trump, who died in July 2022 at age 73 after a fall down the stairs in her Upper East Side Manhattan townhouse. Ivanka, who was serving in Washington at the time, described the separation during the pandemic as adding to the pain. "Losing a parent, it hits differently, you know, especially unexpectedly, especially sort of post-COVID, which kind of robbed so many of us of so many years," she said, pausing to compose herself and request a tissue. She grew tearful reflecting on how her three children—Arabella, Joseph, and Theodore—never fully knew their grandmother, whom she...