Belle Burden

And I thought I was hiding it from them.

I did not do a good job.

I was crying all the time.

I had trouble getting out of bed for a very long time.

And what are you telling them is the reason for that?

I just pretended like I was okay, even though my eyes were swollen.

My older daughter actually knew.

She read a text on my iPad almost immediately, which happens a lot, I think.

So she knew, and she had to pretend that she didn't know.

And then my younger daughter didn't know, but then I think after— How old was your older daughter at the time?

Fifteen.

Yes.

And then my younger one was 12, and I also have a 17-year-old boy who was with his friends.

Yeah.

And the younger one did not know, but then when she found out afterwards, she felt betrayed that I hadn't told her.

So I think that was a mistake.

I wish I had told them.

I said their dad had gone back to New York to go to work, even though New York was shut down, and I wish I had just said,

this is happening and told it in a factual way so that we could all go through it together.

You have to collect yourself.