Cheslie Kryst’s Mom Opens Up About the Former Miss USA’s 2022 Suicide: 'I Can't Let Guilt Erase What We Had' (Exclusive)

On the main floor of April Simpkins’s Tega Cay, S.C., home is a small room decorated with memories of her daughter Cheslie Kryst . It includes bold art prints that once hung in Cheslie’s New York apartment; a faux cowhide rug that lay on her floor; an orange sofa that had the faint smell of her daughter’s perfume, where Simpkins slept when she came to the city to visit Cheslie. “The first time I sat in that room, I couldn’t stop crying,” Simpkins, 56, says. “It was a space where...