03-04-2025
Mother in Shock as She Catches Her Toddler Eating His Grandfather's Ashes in Viral Video: 'I Was Mortified'
A British mother had a shock after seeing what her toddler had been getting up to while she was putting away laundry.
In a TikTok clip, which has now gone viral, the mom showed her son running around a living room covered with toys, before turning the camera on some powder scattered on a table and the couch.
"Oh my God. When your son eats your dad ... 's ashes," TikTok user @palominolil said behind the camera, showing viewers a brown urn as the little boy started to cry.
"My son has eaten my dad's ashes!" the social media user added, turning the camera to a packet of wet wipes on the couch covered with the ashes.
She captioned the Tuesday, April 1 post, "#omg." As of Thursday, April 3, the video had been watched 13.2 million times and liked 1.3 million times.
The TikTok user who posted the video, Natasha Emeny — from the U.K. East Midlands city of Lincoln — said she'd been putting laundry away when she noticed what her 1-year-old son Koah had done, per the Daily Mail.
She insisted the urn had been placed on the "top shelf," the outlet noted, however, he'd still managed to get his hands on it.
"It took me a moment to realize it was in fact my dad's ashes," she said, per the paper, adding, "I was mortified. I'm still trying to process it!"
Emeny has since told The Sun's Fabulous Online that her son is "absolutely fine" as he "didn't consume much."
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In the comments section, TikTok users couldn't believe what they were seeing.
"A sentence I've genuinely never heard before," one person wrote.
"What do you even do in this situation?" another questioned, as one wrote, "Let us know if he starts acting like [your] dad."
" 'When your son eats your dad' I hate when that happens," a different person joked.
The TikTok user then shared multiple selfies of her and her son on the social media site on Thursday, April 3, writing in the caption: "Morning selfies from me and coco been a crazy 48 hours since this little one opened up my dads ashes 🙈"
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