Granger Smith and wife Amber made ‘agreement’ on how to stay together after death of their 3-year-old son

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Granger Smith and his wife Amber Bartlett opened up about how they were able to keep their marriage intact after the death of their 3-year-old son River.

The 43-year-old former country star and 41-year-old actress suffered a tragedy in 2019 when River passed away after a drowning accident in the pool outside their Texas home.

River was rushed to the Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin for treatment but died two days later. In a new interview with Today, the couple recalled being told that there was "zero chance" that their child "was going to live." "We asked for a second opinion," Smith said. "The second crew came in and said 'Yes, we confirm this.' Sympathetically of course, they told us 'There is no chance.'" After hearing the devastating news, Smith told Today that the two walked out to a "little serenity garden that they had at the hospital." "We sat out there just dumbfounded," he remembered. "Then we just looked at each other, and we knew the statistics — we knew that couples don't make it." "The odds are against us," Smith added. "The world is completely against us, and people are mean, and they will perpetuate this." View this post on Instagram A post shared by Granger Smith (@grangersmith) Smith said he realized that he and his wife would grieve in "different cycles." He told Today that he knew it would be "really easy to call each other out on it or get frustrated." "So we made an agreement, right then — it was like, almost, a business agreement," Smith recalled. "It was like OK, we're going to do this.The world is going to come at us; we're going to feel terrible; we have huge obstacles, but we arenotgoing to split.