Over the weekend Bonnie Ryan hosted a Q&A on her Instagram stories and answered a few questions about her father, which she rarely does. A follower asked her; “how do you get over a loss like that so young?”
Her Dad, the popular radio DJ Gerry Ryan, passed away suddenly in 2010 when Bonnie was just 17.
She replied; “I don’t think it’s something you get over, more so you learn how to deal. I miss him every day.”
“It comes in waves even years later.”
Continuing the 28-year-old added; ” But I’m so lucky he was mine, for the time I had him, I’m grateful for what I learned from him and who it’s made me today.”
“I’ve an extremely close family, a tight group of friends and a fiancé who have all been there for me every step, so I’m very lucky.”
The following day Bonnie then revealed that speaking about her father had had an incredible response with her followers. Sharing a family snap she said; “I am blown away by the amount of people who wrote to me yesterday after me talking about my Dad.”
“So many people who have lost a parent or loved one who could relate with what I said.”
“But also so many who are a lot newer in the journey and to you I say there is no rule book on how to deal so take it one day at a time.”
She shared some positivity with her followers too saying; “But I promise it will get easier, you never stop missing them them but that pit in your stomach feeling does go, and it is possible to live a really happy life.”
“Some of my best days were with my Dad but also some of my best have been later in life after he’s passed, so know you can be happy and live a wonderful life you just need to take all they taught you and use it.”
Finally, Bonnie reminded her followers that this isn’t something she’s usually comfortable talking about on Instagram but knows it has helped others who are grieving; “This isn’t something I really talk about but I had so many messages from people dealing with grief and I just wanted to say one bad day doesn’t have to be a week.”
“Let yourself miss them but then do them proud by living the best, happiest and most authentic life you can.”
