Samantha Busch talks about miscarriage and marriage struggles

After NASCAR driver Kyle Busch and his wife Samantha had a son, Brexton, in 2015, brought into the world through in vitro fertilization, their story of a second child was not easy.

Samantha, now a 39-year-old woman, opened up in a conversation with Savannah Chrisley and told how it all started with a "very sudden miscarriage" that left a deep mark on their relationship.

"We had a lot of problems in our marriage because we had never been through something this difficult before. We didn't understand how each of us copes with grief, or what each of us needed at that moment, so everything was very tense," she said honestly in the "Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley" podcast broadcast on July 22.

"We worked on our relationship. We really tried. We even went to marriage counseling." For her, as a woman, it was especially difficult to overcome the feeling of guilt, even though she knew that the abortion was not her fault.

I had a lot of guilt and I was angry with myself for it,” she admitted.

“Kyle, on the other hand, said, ‘I don’t want to sound cold, but it’s over. You can’t change anything. We have to move on.

I wanted him to stay with me, but he moved on, and I couldn’t. It caused a lot of tension and it took time for us to understand each other,” she added.

Hope

Unfortunately, for the couple, who married on New Year’s Day in 2010, their fertility problems didn’t end there.

After failing with IVF, they decided to try surrogacy. When that didn’t work, an alien volunteered to help them conceive. That didn’t work either. They tried IVF again, and Samantha became pregnant with twins.

“Two weeks later, we found out that both fetuses had died,” she said. “My body wouldn’t let go of the pregnancy, so it ruptured two empty fetuses. I ended up having a curettage two days before Mother’s Day.”

They turned to surrogacy again, and “God blessed us” with their daughter Lennix, born May 10, 2022, who celebrated her third birthday last month.

The couple founded the Samantha and Kyle Busch Bundle of Joy Fund, which helps couples through the IVF process. Samantha says they’ve helped more than 100 children come into the world so far.