Luke Bryan: Coroners Cite SADS in Sister's Death

On CNN’s All There Is with Anderson Cooper, Luke Bryan said coroners described his sister Kelly Bryan’s 2007 death at 39 as “sudden death syndrome” and he pushed back against online misinformation and rumors of a family cover-up. He recounted that she collapsed while doing laundry and said the death felt “like somebody just turned the switch off on her,” and that multiple autopsies were inconclusive, ruling out typical causes such as an aneurysm, embolism or blood clot. Bryan noted Kelly had a severe orbital bone injury suggesting she may have fallen and hit her head, and that if someone had been with her her chances might have been better. After Kelly’s husband, Ben Cheshire, died years later, Bryan and his wife Caroline adopted the couple’s three children and raised them alongside their own sons. Outlets note that sudden arrhythmic death syndromes (SADS) are rare cardiac conditions that can cause apparently healthy people to die unexpectedly.