{"id":11084,"date":"2026-08-24T15:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/?p=11084"},"modified":"2026-08-24T15:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:35:14","slug":"byu-star-curtis-browns-wife-shares-emotional-post-after-2-year-old-sons-drowning-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/2026\/08\/byu-star-curtis-browns-wife-shares-emotional-post-after-2-year-old-sons-drowning-death.html","title":{"rendered":"BYU Star Curtis Brown\u2019s Wife Shares Emotional Post After 2-Year-Old Son&#8217;s Drowning Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11087\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11087\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11087\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/413\/2026\/08\/Browns-Child_credit-Kimberly-Brown-Instagram.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Brown \/ Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former BYU football star Curtis Brown and his wife, Kim, are opening up about the heartbreaking loss of their 2-year-old son, Haze, weeks after the toddler drowned in the family\u2019s swimming pool.<\/p>\n<p>In an emotional Instagram post, Kim described the painful absence of the youngest of the couple\u2019s five children, saying she misses him so much that it \u201cphysically hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur bright light and source of pure joy is gone,\u201d she wrote alongside a photo of Haze at the beach. \u201cI am writing this from the floor of his room, surrounded by his things. Looking at all the little pieces of him that are still everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DcCJ_OehmXJ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DcCJ_OehmXJ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Kimberly Brown (@kimdabobrown)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Haze drowned at the family\u2019s home in Clovis, California, on July 26. A family member found him unresponsive in the pool, and emergency crews attempted CPR before he was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death.<\/p>\n<p>Kim wrote that reminders of Haze remain throughout their home \u2014 his clothes, basketball hoop and blanket \u2014 making it difficult to accept that he is gone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI keep expecting to hear him. To see those soft curls bouncing as he runs,\u201d she wrote. \u201cTo hear his little laugh. To squeeze him tight. To kiss his cheeks. To tell him I love him. And then I remember.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haze was known within the family as their \u201cmiracle baby.\u201d Kim\u2019s cousin, Chandler Pearson, said the toddler came after \u201cmuch prayer and fasting\u201d and medical intervention as Curtis and Kim faced fertility struggles.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Kim says she is struggling to understand how to move forward without him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how you survive this,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI don\u2019t know how I am supposed to wake up every morning and live my worst nightmare. I don\u2019t know how a heart is supposed to hold this much pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Curtis also spoke publicly about his son\u2019s death during an Aug. 7 visit to a BYU football practice in Provo, Utah. Addressing the players, the former running back reflected on the support his family has received from teammates and coaches he had not spoken with in years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamily is all you got, and this includes [your teammates and coaches],\u201d Brown said. \u201cI can\u2019t tell you how many guys that I haven\u2019t talked to since I graduated who have reached out since my son passed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown, who played at BYU from 2002 to 2006 and became the school\u2019s all-time leading rusher at the time, told the players the relationships they were building could last long after their football careers ended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know Haze is smiling down on us right now,\u201d he said. \u201cThe love you guys have and have built for each other, it will never go away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Curtis and Kim are also parents to Trey and triplets Cruze, Kash and Julie. A GoFundMe established to help the family with funeral and other expenses has raised more than $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>Kim said Haze should be spending these days welcoming his siblings home from school, cheering at their sporting events, shooting baskets and \u201cmaking our life better and brighter simply by being him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople say they wish they could have one more day with the person they lost. But I don\u2019t want one more day,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI want forever. \u2026 I want all the days back. I want my baby back. I would give anything in this world for the life we were supposed to have.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former BYU football star Curtis Brown and his wife, Kim, are opening up about the heartbreaking loss of their 2-year-old son, Haze, weeks after the toddler drowned in the family\u2019s swimming pool. 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