Kelly Rizzo Gets Real About the "Weird Things About Grief" Nearly 5 Years After Bob Saget's Death

Nearly five years after losing Bob Saget, Kelly Rizzo is opening up about what grief actually looks like long after the funeral, the flowers, and the well-meaning check-in texts stop. In an Instagram post on Thursday, October 8, she shared a list of what she calls the“weird things about grief,”and it’s the unpolished stuff most people only think about in private. Guilt for feeling happy. Crying at unexpected moments. The gut-punch of realizing there will never be another new photo of him, ever.

Rizzo also described how her life is divided into two distinct eras:“Before Bob Died and After Bob Died.”She admitted that small talk still feels unbearable and that grief morphs and changes forms and evolves over time, but it’s always still there. She shared that she had her first significant dream about Saget earlier this year, a milestone many people who’ve lost someone deeply understand. Saget died in January 2022 at age 65 from blunt head trauma after an accidental fall.

Rather than keeping the conversation focused on herself, Rizzo invited her followers to share their own grief experiences in the comments, and the response has been a flood of people describing their own before-and-after timelines and their own weird moments. What’s your“weird thing about grief”that nobody warned you about? Drop it in the comments.