But two years into their marriage, Kris received a life-changing phone call: her husband was hit by a semi-truck in a horrific car crash. “It’s the phone call nobody wants to get — saying Brandon had been in an accident,” she told South West News Service. “I was 24 with my whole life ahead of me. It was incredibly heartbreaking.” Brandon’s condition was so unstable the medical team wouldn’t confirm whether he was dead or alive and warned his young wife that he likely wouldn’t survive, New York Post reported. He was in a coma for two months and was left with severe brain damage. “I felt very hopeless in the early days,” Kris recalled.
