Distraught Ivanka Trump breaks down over mother’s tragic dying as she reveals psychological well being battle

Ivanka Trump broke down in tears as she revealed she sought professional mental health help after her mother Ivana’s sudden death.

The first daughter, 44, spoke on the Diary of a CEO podcast about her grief that her three children never got to know their grandmother and said she would ‘talk about her and start to cry, just like I’m still doing – but in a different way, like I was avoiding.’

She sought therapy after a devastating period in which her husband, Jared Kushner, underwent a second cancer surgery and Ivana died within weeks of each other.

‘I wanted to make sure I’m really good at being tough,’ Ivanka said.

Ivanka wept as she described how her grandmother, Babi, 99, now lives with the family in Miami. ‘It’s a blessing to have her in our home,’ she said, ‘telling her stories and stories of my mother, who they sadly didn’t get to know.’

‘Losing a parent – it hits different,’ she added, ‘especially unexpectedly, especially post-COVID because it robbed us of so many years.’

Ivana, 73, was found unconscious at the bottom of the stairs at her Manhattan home and died that same day in July 2022. At the time, Ivanka was living in Washington, DC.

Kushner had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer while working in the White House in 2019, and underwent a second surgery in August 2022.

Ivanka Trump broke down in tears recalling her late mother Ivana in a raw and emotional podcast appearance, revealing she sought professional mental health help after her tragic death

Ivanka Trump and her mother, Ivana Trump, attend the 25th Anniversary Party for Studio 54 in New York City on April 24, 2002 

Ivana and Ivanka Trump attend Cooks for Kids II Benefit on November 1, 1994 in New York City

Ivanka also discussed watching ‘in real time’ the harrowing assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2023.

‘I was horrified and I was scared,’ she said, adding she felt ‘incredibly lucky that he was protected that day.’