“I don’t even have words for how intense it is to try and help process someone’s estate stuff,” the Girl Wash Your Face author shared. “I never thought about this in my life. Like, what happens when someone passes away? And someone has to pay the bills, someone has to—what do you do with their physical stuff?”
Rachel noted that even the work that went into sorting out her late ex-husband’s estate and will required the help of three other people, including her boyfriend. But if anything, Dave’s sudden death has led the 40-year-old to go into overdrive making sure everyone has their affairs in order—even her parents.
“I was joking with them but like not joking,” she said on the podcast. “Like, ‘Do not do this to us girls. Do not when you pass away—just leave it all for us to figure out.'”
The self-help guru continued, “Nobody wants to think about it, but it’s real. And to ignore the fact that something might happen and you might not be here, I think, is so dangerous.”
Before signing off the mic, Rachel revealed that her lawyer advised her to chose “four layers” of backup guardians for her children in case of her death.
“I’m like, if something has happened to four layers of adults, it’s the apocalypse,” she teased. “The kids get to raise themselves.”
