Warning: This article contains discussion of suicide which may be distressing for some readers.
Virginia Giuffre’s family has released a heartfelt letter she penned to her children a few weeks before her passing.
Virginia passed away on April 25 at her home in the Neergabby area of Western Australia. Just weeks prior to the 41-year-old’s death, she posted on social media stating she had ‘four days to live’ following a car accident, expressing that she was ‘ready to go’ but wished to see her three children ‘one last time’.
The family now shares a collection of diary entries Virginia wrote in the weeks leading up to her death, including a poignant letter addressed to her children, entitled ‘To the kids’.
This was Virginia’s final entry. In the months preceding her passing, she was embroiled in a contentious court case with her estranged husband, Robert.
During an interview with The Times, an incident in January of this year led Robert to file a restraining order against Virginia.
Her ex-husband was granted temporary custody of their youngest children, alongside a six-month prohibition on contacting them.
“I’ve never seen my sister as physically broken down as she was then,” Sky Roberts, her brother, shared with The Times. “She was really struggling, emotionally and physically. She could face a lot of things, but the idea of not seeing her children broke her.”
In her final diary entry, Virginia composed a note to her children, which her family hopes will reach them and convey her deep love.
According to The Times, Virginia’s brothers have attempted to reach out to them but have not succeeded.
The letter reads: “Every day that I don’t see your faces has a little less light. The world is dimmer w/o you in it.
“… It’ll all be alright, you’ll have a rainbow over your head, angels by your side and God in your heart.”
Sky also recounted the day preceding Virginia’s death, describing it as ‘such a good day’.
“We had lunch and after that we tried on cowboy hats and went to a thrift store. We were just being silly, you know — she could be very silly,” he recounted.
The following day, Sky went to check on Virginia but decided not to disturb her after hearing ‘meditation music’ from her room.
Feeling uneasy, he eventually returned and discovered his sister unconscious.
“We have always had this interconnected, twinsie thing and I just felt something was wrong,” Sky explained.
Despite his attempts to revive Virginia, she tragically did not survive.
Sky mentioned he is uncertain why Virginia chose that day to end her life, though he noted that it ‘was a lot of things’, adding it was close to her son’s 18th birthday.
“That was very important to her and she knew she wouldn’t be there for that. They were her life.” he commented.
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