The Connecticut mom who lost her three young daughters in a 2011 Christmas Day fire says in a heartbreaking new interview she still imagines seeing them everywhere.
“There are times that I get behind a school bus, and I see little girls in the window. There are times that, you know, I go to the park or a restaurant, and I hear some little girl call, ‘Mommy,’ ” said Madonna Badger, who lost daughters Lily, 9, and twins Sarah and Grace, 7, along with her elderly parents, in the blaze.
“I just try to twist it around, you know, and see Lily there, or see Sarah and Grace there. See love there,” the former Calvin Klein ad exec told Oprah Winfrey.
Badger, 50, said she wishes she hadn’t sweated the little things — like work deadlines or getting her kids into the right schools or getting them to eat organic food — now that her kids are gone.
The Badger children – Grace, Sarah and Lily – were killed in a Christmas Day fire in 2011.Photo: Facebook
“All that stuff . . . doesn’t matter,” she said.
Badger said her faith in God was deeply tested by the horrific incident. But she said, it did survive, recalling a talk she had with the minister who conducted her daughters’ funeral.
“He said that ‘God is not a puppeteer, and God cried first,’ ” Badger said.
“I know that in my own heart . . . [that] the God I believe in is not a punishing God, you know, and would never, ever hurt children or do anything in any way to make people miserable.”
Badger took a huge personal step this past summer marrying a longtime pal, William Duke.
“My heart never closed down,’’ she said.
“I never stopped loving. . . . The love I have for my girls and my parents is so strong, that love has kept me alive.”
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