Katelynn Ordone is opening up about a deeply personal part of grieving the loss of her 2-year-old son, Preston, who died in an automobile accident in April 2025.
On Wednesday, Jan. 21, the influencer shared a video made up of clips from the days following the crash. In some moments, she appears in a hospital gown and wheelchair. In others, the footage shows tributes to her late toddler, who was known to followers as the “Okay Baby.”
Throughout the video, the clips cut back to Ordone in the present, staring toward the camera. Text over the video reads: “When I zone out and people think I’m tired but really the worst day of my life plays over and over again.”
In the caption of her Instagram Reel, Ordone wrote that she wanted to show what many people don’t talk about. “This is the harsh reality of tragedy and grief that a lot of people don’t share,” she explained, adding that she has no memory of the day itself but was able to obtain recordings of the 911 calls.
The post is set to audio from the emergency call she made right after the crash. Ordone and her husband, Jaelen Ordone, were in the vehicle with Preston when their Ford F-150 left the roadway and struck a tree, according to a Louisiana State Police press release shared the day the accident occurred.
In the audio heard in the video, a 911 operator asks Ordone if she can hear her. Ordone responds, “I don’t know. I don’t even know where I am right now. I don’t remember.” Her voice then breaks as she pleads for help and says prayers aloud.
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In July 2025 — about two and a half months after the collision — Ordone posted on TikTok about gaps in her memory of the crash and the “two to three days” afterward, which she attributed to a traumatic brain injury. She also said her father later told her about a phone call she made that stood out to him.
“The accident was awful, and somehow I was able to get my hold of my phone,” she said. “I called 911 first. I was on the phone with them for five minutes. The only reason I know that is because I saw it in my call logs, and then my parents have told me that I called them.”
Ordone said she eventually reached her parents, and her father told her she began reciting the Lord’s Prayer “perfectly.” She added that after hearing that, she had to look up the words herself.
“I have heard of it. I recognize it when I hear it, but I did not — still do not — know it well enough to recite it perfectly,” she reflected.
