Pal Recalls How Ivana Trump Struggled in Her Final Days

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Ivana Trump couldn’t walk and struggled to leave her house in the weeks that preceded her death, a close friend said Friday.

Trump, the 73-year-old ex-wife of Donald Trump, was found dead Thursday afternoon at the bottom of the staircase of her Manhattan home.

Zach Erdem, who declined an interview but confirmed previous comments to the New York Post, said Trump had a hip issue that limited her ability to walk. He added that the former model “was feeling bad” the last time he spoke to her two weeks ago.

“She said she was having pain in her leg,” he told the paper. ”She couldn’t get out of her house.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pal-recalls-how-ivana-trump-struggled-in-her-final-days/ar-AAZCVNo

She couldn't afford any assistance? Is her ex that cheap?

[LisaL]

1. And why was she going up or down the stairs in that condition?

Clearly someone with such limited ability to walk shouldn't be going up or down the staircase. For someone supposedly with means, you'd think the apartment would have an elevator.

[Peacetrain]

2. If she was that feeble, where in the hell were her useless kids

You would think they would have someone stay with her if she was so incapacitated, that family is just so bizarre..

[LisaL]

5. She had some sort of medical assistant.

There are photos of her going around with an assistant. But apparently she was still left alone to climb the stairs on the day (or night?) she supposedly fell.

[Peacetrain]

7. There is something just not right about the whole thing...

Not saying that useless family killed her.. (I know that one has been going around, because they are all so close to being called in for depositions)..but something is not right..

[Arazi]

19. It's a mob thing to kill a family member to keep someone from snitching

Just sayin’

[leftyladyfrommo]

25. That may just be in movies. The mob here didn't go after

families. Anybody else was fine.

[pwb]

3. Chair lifts are reasonably priced if

anyone in the family was paying attention to help.

[former9thward]

20. She had a four story home in Manhattan.

She could have afforded a chair lift if she wanted one.

[Hekate]

28. Sounds like there should be a home elevator in there somewhere

[dalton99a]

4. The Trump family couldn't afford to have her taken to a doctor

[Tetrachloride]

6. People have pride. Don't ask for help.

[Victor_c3]

15. +1 n/t

[Irish_Dem]

8. I read she was in high heels when she fell.

Usually women with serious leg pain and mobility issues would never dream of wearing heels.

As others are saying, she could have had a chair lift for the stairs, moved to a one level home, had a paid assistant to help her. She had more financial resources than most of America.

The story doesn't make sense.

[Kali]

18. vanity and our culture cause women to do some really stupid and self-destructive things.

men too for that matter. people are strange and asking for help is like taking poison for some.

[Irish_Dem]

23. Yes I thought that could be the explanation.

Vanity, and fear of looking old or weak.

[vanlassie]

9. It was a four story apartment. Had to have had a lift.

[blm]

10. Her children weren't there to help her through this struggle.

Shame on them. A mom should be able to rely on her children when she faces health issues.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

11. WHERE WERE HER CHILDREN?

[Thtwudbeme]

12. "Is the ex that cheap?" Ummmm the woman was worth over 10 million.

She divorced that fuckwit 32 years ago...their kids are grown...and she was a multi-millionaire in her own right.

[Hortensis]

16. Lol, that should blow up a lot of contrived grievance.

But, those inclined can just shift grievance to her for being wealthy.

RIP, Ivana. Who married the fuckwit, supported his politics, and never got rid of his name.

[Thtwudbeme]

22. I follow this cool little Vermont group on FB- they posted a photo of her from 1970

when she was working as a ski instructor.

I was sitting there looking at it- she looked so normal, young and healthy...and reading the posts of the other ski instructors who worked with and liked her...and thinking:

"Jesus...WTF?" How did she go from that healthy woman to marrying that fuckwit from the 9th Circle of Hell?

I am going to assume that she kept the last name because it was the same as her children's- god rest their souls they sold to the devil- but I digress.

Oh well, I never met her- so it's hard to judge her.

But, I damn sure know that she could have afforded a live in helper. At the bare minimum she could have called that vapid silly twit of a daughter and asked her and that vapid silly twit she is married to and asked them to hire someone to help her. There was no need to call her fuckhead of an ex-husband- that useless fuck would have just texted Ivanka anyway.

[Hortensis]

31. Lol. Of course agree, including choosing err "generous" out of the range

of possibilities, including the reason for keeping the name.

She's of independent means, to put it mildly. Some sources estimate her wealth at $100M, which seems entirely possible if she handled her substantial divorce settlement and other self-made incomes better than The Donald over the intervening 30 years. That was a period of enormous wealth growth. Incredibly silly to imagine her anything but very empowered.

That doesn't preclude believing from her own interviews and behaviors that she would have become a trumpist in this century if she'd married a plumbing contractor from Fresno, CA in the last one. To our shock and horror, 70M American voters are like that.

[RazzleCat]

13. I hate the Trump's, but

My mom had mobility issues in a two story house with no full bath or bed on the first story. When my father died she refused to have an aide while she sold the house, she also refused to let any of us stay with her, it was a pride thing.

Next pride issue, she hated the walker, thought it made her look old and feeble, so would she use it, NOPE, she went to the movies with her cane, and you guessed it, fell down and broke her hip. Of course that meant more hospital time and a wheel chair, now let's be honest if she would not use a walker do ya think she would submit to a chair, again nope. So out comes the walker for only around the house, and again, don't you try and help her. Other items she would not use, motorized carts at markets, again said it made her look helpless, when asked how she gets around at them said a shopping cart works like a walker.

The only aide she ever hired was in late stage cancer, and yes she could have afforded one prior, but again, she was just too dam stubborn. Again any of us would have stayed with her, and at the very end we did, but she absolutely never wanted anyones help, she always wanted to be independent. My SO said that her attitude is what most likely keep her alive so long, she just refused to become a stuck at home disabled person.

All this to say, even people who can afford help may refuse it because it hurts their pride and self image.

[Hekate]

29. I hear you

[bronxiteforever]

14. Do her kids have the same attitude about disability

as their father? Like when he mocked the physical disability of the reporter?


https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-making-fun-reporters-disability/story?id=35463888

[Victor_c3]

17. I will never ask my children for help or to take care of me

They have their own lives to live and at some point might have their own children and families to take care of.

I will move into a nursing home before I subject my children to taking care of me. I’ve spent enough time in a hospital setting that the idea of a nursing home doesn’t scare me at all.

I chose to have kids, they didn’t choose to have parents.

[Kali]

21. that can be an admirable attitude but maybe they might WANT to help and be with you...

my Mom was the same...after life as an excellent homemaker she was looking forward to assisted care. unfortunately she died before she could actually enjoy it.

but, having taken care of a few family members at the end of life, I have to say it CAN be a special time, beyond the hard work involved. it isn't always just a horrible burden.

[Victor_c3]

24. True, and I'd help my own parents despite their objections n/t

[moniss]

26. The stairs

may have had nothing to do with her "injuries". If she was already on the first floor when her "injuries" happened and then she was moved to the bottom of the stairs to make it look as though she fell. I completely agree that I doubt a woman with severe leg/hip pain is going to be in heels. I wouldn't trust the NYPD on anything. We likely will never know the truth. We will be told a story and told to move on.

[Ptah]

27. .

[Ms. Toad]

30. Thirty years after the end of a fifteen year marriage -

And you expect the ex to be providing support?

Not to mention that Trump was one of one of four ex-husbands.

[Ms. Toad]

32. Thirty years after the end of a fifteen year marriage -

And you expect the ex to be providing support?

Not to mention that Trump was one of one of four ex-husbands.