Halsey is overcome with grief as she reveals sudden death of her beloved dog Jagger: ‘This has been the worst week of my life’

Halsey is shattered over the sudden and premature loss of her pet dog Jagger.

The Without Me singer paid tribute to her beloved pooch in a post shared to Instagram on Saturday.

Along with sharing her favorite photos of Jagger, Halsey detailed his rapid decline following a myelomalacia diagnosis, which is a softening of the spinal cord resulting in acute paralysis.

Calling it the ‘worst week of my life,’ Halsey recalled watching ‘paralysis spread through his body by the hour’ in three days.

Heartbreaking: Singer Halsey revealed that her beloved dog Jagger, five, died just days after being diagnosed with myelomalacia, a softening of the spinal cord resulting in acute paralysis

The 27-year-old singer prefaced her heartbreaking story by noting that she never understood the devastation of losing a pet until she got a dog of her own.

In past, she sided with people who would say: ‘It’s just a dog.’

‘Well I couldn’t have been more wrong,’ the New Jersey native admitted, now that she’s experienced the loss of her own dog.

She shared about how she acquired Jagger when he was just a few weeks old, and that she sometimes thought about what it would feel like when he eventually passed. 

Halsey (born Ashley Nicolette Frangipane), 27, prefaced her heartbreaking story by revealing she didn’t understand the mourning process over a pet before she got a dog of her own, and that she was wrong to side with people who would say: ‘It’s just a dog’

RIP: This has been the worst week of my life,’ the singer confessed in the wake of her dog’s passing, which came just days after his myelomalacia diagnosis

Halsey adopted Jagger, who is named after Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, back in 2017 when he was just weeks old

Life and mortality: Halsey shared that she sometimes thought about what it would feel like when Jagger eventually passed, but put those emotions aside thinking she had years of sharing their lives together

Thinking she had many years before she would have to face Jagger’s mortality, the singer shared that he’d ‘be old and rickety and grumpy by then’, and that she could ‘spend the last few years giving him extra ice cream and lazy sunbathing days that he loved when he was too old to run in circles.’

The Nightmare star confessed she always ‘feared’ losing her beloved pooch, whom she adopted in 2017, and that she ‘knew it would hurt’, but found comfort and inner peace in thinking he’d make it through his health scare.

‘Unfortunately that is not how it happened for us,’ she shared with obvious sadness to her words.

Four-legged family: Halsey called Jagger ‘my first love’

In the case of Jagger, Halsey called his diagnosis ‘a catastrophic prognosis’

The pooch’s health deteriorated within days of his diagnosis

When myelomalacia occurs, the damage done to the spinal cord can range from minimal to extensive. according to TC Pain Doctor. 

In the case of Jagger, Halsey called his diagnosis ‘a catastrophic prognosis.’    

‘Within 3 days my beautiful baby boy went from chasing imaginary birds around the yard and laying in my lap turning his ears up at the sounds of Sesame Street, to having paralysis spread through his body by the hour. It was sudden and shocking and I still haven’t even really processed it,’ she wrote of his remaining days. 

Seven months after the arrival of her first child, a son named Ender with partner Alev Aydin, Halsey called Jagger, ‘my very first love’, and credited him with teaching her ‘how to be a mommy.’ 

Life changing: Seven months after the arrival of her first child, a son named Ender with partner Alev Aydin, Halsey credited Jagger with teaching her ‘how to be a mommy’

The New Jersey native called Jagger’s paralysis ‘sudden and shocking’

Momma knows best: ‘Every single person who had the privilege of meeting jagger will never forget him. He was that special,’ Halsey said of her pet pooch

‘Every single person who had the privilege of meeting jagger will never forget him. He was that special,’ she said with pride, adding, ‘If you’re reading this and you don’t have a pet, you might be thinking “it’s just a dog.” Like I maybe used to. But I can tell you you’re wrong. So f***ing wrong.

She ended the post by sharing some heavy emotions that describe the enormity of her loss.

‘It’s the most visceral loss I have ever felt. Like the absence of a vital appendage.   Every single second of my day that once revolved around his little habits and routines is now full of just emptiness and silence. If you loved Jagger along with me, thank you for giving him the best life the bestest boy could have ever had.’

Many of her 28.4 million Instagram fans and followers took to the comments section to share their support, with many of them sending their ‘love’ and offering their condolences.                     

Heavy emotions: ‘It’s the most visceral loss I have ever felt. Like the absence of a vital appendage,’ Halsey said of Jagger’s death

Supportive: Many of her 28.4 million Instagram fans and followers took to the comments section to share their support, with many of them sending their ‘love’ and offering their condolences

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