Honestly, who could’ve prepared Konnor McClain for that December night in 2021? While America slept and the pandemic raged, the 16-year-old gymnast watched her world collapse as her father succumbed to COVID-19 at 1:27 a.m. Frankly, how does anyone breathe after that? “I love you ,” she posted beneath a childhood photo—words that couldn’t possibly capture her heartbreak. For two months afterward, she wasn’t on the mat, and she even blamed the sport! Why did she do that?
In a powerful Instagram reel shared by ESPN on April 13, Konnor McClain opened up about the moment that changed her life forever. “I remember like standing in the window and that’s when he took his last breath, and then you just like hear the machine flat line.”
Her father, Marc McClain, passed away in 2021, a loss that left Konnor questioning everything. “After he passed, that’s when I started blaming gymnastics on, like, why I wasn’t with my family, like, and why I didn’t get as much time with my dad as, like, my siblings did. But he was the one who wanted me in the gym, and so it took a long time for me to realize that I kind of used my anger and all the pain that I suffered through like, and I persevered, and I made the best out of it.”
On her Instagram Story, Konnor later shared the video and wrote: “captured an important piece of my life so perfectly ” “i love you forever and ever dad ”
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