John Legend shares an emotional letter to wife Chrissy Teigen

Warning: the following may be triggering for some readers as it discusses pregnancy loss, grief and trauma.On Wednesday night, John Legend dedicated his performance at the Billboard Music Awards to wife Chrissy Teigen. Debuting his new ballad “Never Break,” the EGOT winner performed the deeply personal track about love and loss only two weeks after the couple publicly announced that Teigen had suffered a miscarriage while pregnant with their third child.On October 15, Legend expanded on his dedication to Teigen and posted a loving and emotional letter to his wife on Instagram, while also showing his support to others who have suffered loss. “This is for Chrissy. I love and cherish you and our family so much,” wrote Legend to his wife of seven years. “We’ve experienced the highest highs and lowest lows together. Watching you carry our children has been so moving and humbling. I’m in awe of the strength you’ve shown through the most challenging moments. What an awesome gift it is to be able to bring life into the world. We’ve experienced the miracle, the power and joy of this gift, and now we’ve deeply felt its inherent fragility.”

 

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This is for Chrissy. I love and cherish you and our family so much. We’ve experienced the highest highs and lowest lows together. Watching you carry our children has been so moving and humbling. I’m in awe of the strength you’ve shown through the most challenging moments. What an awesome gift it is to be able to bring life into the world. We’ve experienced the miracle, the power and joy of this gift, and now we’ve deeply felt its inherent fragility. I wrote this song because I have faith that as long as we walk this earth, we will hold each other’s hands through every tear, through every up and down, through every test. We promised each other this on our wedding day seven years ago, and every challenge we’ve faced has made that promise more powerful, more resilient. Our love will remain. We will never break. Thank you to everyone who has been sending us prayers and well wishes, flowers, cards, words of comfort and empathy. We feel and appreciate your love and support more than you know. More than anything, we’ve heard so many stories about how so many other families have experienced this pain, often suffering in silence. It’s a club no one wants to be a part of, but it’s comforting to know we’re not alone. I’m sure Chrissy will have much more to say about this when she’s ready. But just know we’re grateful and we’re sending love to all of you and your families.

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Speaking about “Never Break,” Legend said he was inspired by the couple’s unwavering commitment to each other. “I wrote this song because I have faith that as long as we walk this earth, we will hold each other’s hands through every tear, through every up and down, through every test,” wrote Legend. “Our love will remain. We will never break.”Legend also thanked those who have reached out to the couple to offer support, including the many people who have shared their own experiences with pregnancy loss. “We feel and appreciate your love and support more than you know,” added Legend. “More than anything, we’ve heard so many stories about how so many other families have experienced this pain, often suffering in silence. It’s a club no one wants to be a part of, but it’s comforting to know we’re not alone. I’m sure Chrissy will have much more to say about this when she’s ready. But just know we’re grateful and we’re sending love to all of you and your families.”[video_embed id='2056943']WATCH: John Legend shares an emotional tribute to Chrissy Teigen [/video_embed]On September 30, Teigen announced on Instagram that she had suffered a pregnancy loss. Teigen had been updating fans throughout her difficult pregnancy, which had been marked by severe and constant bleeding. The TV personality had been placed on bed rest and received several blood transfusions, but doctors were unable to save her son, who Teigen revealed she and Legend had named Jack.“We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before,” wrote Tiegen, who shared several photos of herself and Legend in the hospital during the moments that followed the loss. “We are so grateful for the life we have, for our wonderful babies Luna and Miles, for all the amazing things we’ve been able to experience,” continued Teigen. “But everyday can’t be full of sunshine. On this darkest of days, we will grieve, we will cry our eyes out. But we will hug and love each other harder and get through it.”Teigen’s raw and public view into her grief inspired a movement online that included many thanking the cookbook author for helping to publicize something that women and couples often suffer through in silence. Actor Kate Beckinsale publicly thanked Teigen for her post and revealed that she previously experienced a miscarriage when 20 weeks pregnant.“There is grief, shame and shock so often that come with an experience like this, plus the heartbreak of your body continuing, after the loss, to act as if it had a child to nurture,” wrote Beckinsale. “It can be the loneliest, most soul destroying period of time, particularly if you are not in the position of having an emotionally connected, supportive partner like Chrissy has. I think it’s an honour to be allowed into another persons grief, especially with a subject like this which so often puts a woman into that hall of mirrors state of life continuing as if the world hasn’t, for you, come to a bloody and terrible halt. Sending so much love to the Legend family, but also so much to the women and couples who have kept it quiet and suffered. I know there are so many.”[video_embed id='1607372']BEFORE YOU GO: New book opens up the dialogue on infertility and pregnancy loss [/video_embed]