Sunday 4 September 2022 10:07 PM LA model who overdosed on drugs was buried with the wedding dress she never got ... trends now
A model who died after overdosing on a cocktail of drugs allegedly given to her and her architect friend by a Hollywood producer was buried with the wedding dress she never got to wear, her devastated parents have revealed.
In an emotional interview with The New York Post, Dusty and Leslie Giles said they made the decision about a month after their daughter, Christy Giles, 24, was found dead outside a California hospital in November, 2021.
The parents said Christy meant to wear the dress at a wedding ceremony for family and friends after she and her fiancé, Jan Cilliers, eloped at the 2019 Burning Man festival.
'I asked Jan if I could please have it so we could bury her in her wedding dress,' her mother Dusty said through tears, according to The Post, 'It won't be on her but I didn't want anyone else to wear it. It's hers and she unfortunately never got to have her wedding.'
She was buried in Alabama where her parents live, the same state the wedding had been planned for.
Christy Giles, 24, was found dead of a drug overdose outside a California hospital in November, 2021
Christy's parents, Dusty and Leslie Giles, said they decided to bury their daughter with her unworn wedding gown
Christy's parents also recounted how her body had begun to decompose by the time she was buried, and that her once perfect face had begun to collapse on one side.
Dusty said she asked the mortician to angle her daughter's face so they could hold an open casket wake.
The sight was so devastating that her father Leslie opted not to view his daughter.
'I couldn't look at her… I didn't see her at all,' he said. Overcome with grief recounting the memory, he then had to leave the interview according to The Post.
'He made a decision not to see her because it was too much,' Dusty said of her husband, 'She was a 'daddy's girl. This is all still too much. How are we coping? We are broken, we are trying to bear an unbearable burden.'
The wedding gown Christy never got to wear. She and her parents were planning a ceremony in Alabama, but she was buried there instead
A box containing Christy's wedding gown and a number of other items, which was buried alongside Christy
Giles was found the sidewalk at Southern California Hospital in Culver City on November 13, 2021. She died a short time later from what was determined to be an overdose of fentanyl, cocaine and other drugs.
A few hours later, her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, 26, was left at Kaiser West Los Angeles. She remained in a coma until she died on November 24 from organ failure and intoxication from
