Madonna Badger Gives Heartbreaking Eulogy At Funeral For Daughters Killed In Christmas Day Fire
Jan. 6 2012, Published 3:00 p.m. ET
By Alexis Tereszcuk - Breaking Celebrity News Senior Reporter
In a heartbreaking speech, New York fashion executive, Madonna Badger sobbed as she remembered her daughters who tragically were the victims of a Christmas Day fire in their home.
“My little girls are not gone from us entirely because my little girls are in my heart,” she said while sobbing. “Right here. And this is where they live.”
The St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan was packed with mourners who listened to Badger speak lovingly about her lost girls.
There were three tiny caskets topped with white and pink floral arrangements for her daughters Lily, 10, and twins Grace and Sarah, 7 in the church.
Madonna fondly remembered Lily, saying “she was naturally shy, but when she let her smile glow it glowed completely,” and spoke about a heart wrenching conversation she had with Grace.
“Gracie asked a thousand times if she was going to die before me. I said, ‘No. that’s never going to happen.’”
The horrific Christmas Day fire also killed Badger’s mother and father, Lomer, 71, and Pauline.
All five bodies were found on the top two floors of Badger’s three-story $1.7 million mansion in Stamford, Conn.
As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, the blaze is believed to have started from Yule log embers.
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