Just tragic. This week, country star Luke Bryan is the guest on CNN podcast All There Is with Anderson Cooper, and he opened up about a completely horrific time in his life, when his sister,  Kelly, died unexpectedly in 2007 at age 39. Seven years later, Kelly’s husband and Luke’s brother-in-law, Ben Lee Cheshire, passed away from a heart attack in 2014. They shared three children, Jordan, Kris, and Til, and Luke and his wife Caroline stepped up and adopted their nieces and nephews and raised them as their own. Luke’s brother, Chris, also tragically passed away in a car accident in 1996 at just 20 years old. It happened on the night before Luke had planned to move to Nashville to chase his country music dreams, so obviously that got put on pause for a few years, and even though he’s enjoyed a lot of success in the music industry, Luke’s life has not been without a lot of pain and tragedy. His hit song “Drink a Beer” was written for his siblings and family members, and it’s really an inspiring story… even if his music isn’t your favorite, there’s no denying that he’s a great guy and stepped up for his family when they needed it the most. At the time of his sister’s passing, the family understandably never revealed a cause of death, and due to some misinformation on the internet, Bryan revealed what happened during the interview. He says Kelly was part of a “very very small percentage of people” that “die for no reason,” called “sudden death syndrome.” He explained that his family never tried to cover anything up, but it was obviously “tragic beyond words,” especially for her three young children. It happened while she was at home doing laundry: “I’ve never really explained what happened to my sister. There’s some misinformation out there on the internet, and I think some people kind of like, wonder what happened and think that we’ve tried to cover it up. But there is a very very small percentage of people that die for no reason in the world. And it’s called sudden death syndrome and that’s essentially what they they described my sister’s death as she was in her home doing her laundry, and it was Anderson, it was like, you know, somebody just turned the switch off on her and it was just- it was- it was just tragic beyond words.” Cooper asked if it took a while to get that diagnoses, because there were articles out there saying that they had a “number of autopsies” done, and Luke explained that the family wanted to get to the bottom of it because there were so many unanswered questions. She at home without any adults around, and Bryan says they’re still unsure if she fainted first, but she did have a “severe orbital bone injury,” and he still wonders if she would’ve been able to survive if someone had been there to help. He called his sister the “best mother you could ever dream of,” and he still can’t wrap his brain around her being gone sometimes: “Yeah, yeah, we had- obviously we wanted to know what had happened because there was so much, there was just so much unanswered questions. And we wanted to know, could there be a family history of something that her children might have or may have? Your typical findings of an autopsy of someone 39 would be an aneurysm or an embolism or a blood clot of some kind and everything was inconclusive. She had a pretty severe, uh, like orbital bone injury. So whether she fainted or not, I think she may have went into the floor and kind of knocked herself out. My nephew, uh was three at the time. And I just think I think if someone could have been there, maybe, maybe her chances of surviving would have been- they would have been a lot better. She really was just a, she was everything in our lives. She was a mother of three children and she was, I mean, the best mother you could ever dream of. And we all leaned on her for so many things and it’s hard to really wrap your brain around her being gone.” Bryan also opened up about her funeral, and he explained an incredible experience when he walked in the building that day to put her to rest: “The morning of her funeral, I mean Anderson, I don’t know how to vocalize what I was feeling. I mean the nausea. I did not want to go in the funeral home and see my sister. I was just really… not not processing this well. And the fact that I knew at 5:00 pm I was going to walk in that funeral home and have to deal with this- it was just really I just wasn’t doing well with it. And we get in a car and it’s the sensation you get in the car and you know that this has got to happen. And Anderson when I walked in the room- and I’m a pretty spiritual guy and I’m pretty grounded in my belief in Christ and Christianity- and I would say it was the first time in my life I felt a spirit of another world take away my burden in that room. When I saw her, it was like something, it was almost like a pressure valve released. And, and I just feel like between… I don’t I can’t explain it. It was truly like she let – she set me free in that room. And you know, my mother did not have that experience and and I think I was the only one in the family that had that experience.” I can’t even imagine how difficult that whole experience was and continues to be for their family, but he has really stepped up, to put it lightly, and supported his nieces and nephew who lost two parents at such young ages. He also talked about how he’s dealt with the loss of both of his siblings throughout life and into adulthood, and it’s an incredibly honest conversation that will give you some real insight into who Bryan is and what he’s overcome. The full podcast is available below: The post For The First Time Ever, Luke Bryan Shares What Caused His Sister’s Tragic Passing In 2007: “Like Somebody Turned The Switch Off” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.