Ivanka Trump Reveals Quiet Mental Health Battle In Emotional Interview

Ivanka Trump is opening up about a private struggle after her mother Ivana’s sudden death, describing how grief and a brutal stretch of family health scares pushed her to seek professional help.

In an emotional interview on the Diary of a CEO podcast, Trump, 44, said she turned to therapy after a one-two punch: her husband, Jared Kushner, underwent a second cancer surgery, and Ivana died just weeks later.

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

She said the loss hit especially hard because her three children never really got the chance to know their grandmother. Ivanka added that she found herself avoiding the subject because it brought on tears.

She 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.”

Ivanka also described how her grandmother, Babi, now 99, lives with the family in Miami.

“It’s a blessing to have her in our home,” she said, explaining that Babi keeps her mother’s memory alive by “telling her stories and stories of my mother, who they sadly didn’t get to know.”

Ivanka reflected on how grief changes when a parent dies unexpectedly, especially after the pandemic.

“Losing a parent – it hits different,” she said, “especially unexpectedly, especially post-COVID because it robbed us of so many years.”

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

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

Ivanka also revisited the July 2024 assassination attempt on President Donald Trump, saying she watched it unfold “in real time” and was shaken by what she saw.

“I was horrified and I was scared, and I was protective of my children,” she said.

She said she sensed her father would survive as Secret Service agents rushed him to the ground after a bullet grazed his ear.

“I didn’t believe that the worst possible outcome had transpired thank God,” she said. “And thank God, it hadn’t.”

Ivanka said she saw him around 2 a.m. after he returned from the hospital to his Bedminster estate in New Jersey.

“You can’t take things for granted in this life, and I’ve learned that in numerous ways,” she added.

Asked about anger toward those who tried to harm her father, Ivanka said she chose not to carry it.

“What does that accomplish being negative towards the world?” she said. “There’s a lot of sickness, and I think that forgiveness is a difficult thing but – his living was a blessing.”

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Ivanka, who has largely avoided the spotlight since stepping back from politics in 2022, said her focus has been family life and raising her three children, while Kushner remains involved in major foreign policy talks as Trump’s peace envoy in the Middle East.

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