{"id":5547,"date":"2025-11-17T21:40:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/?p=5547"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:40:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:40:51","slug":"son-makes-heartbreaking-confession-after-video-of-mom-hugging-him-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/?p=5547","title":{"rendered":"Son Makes Heartbreaking Confession After Video Of Mom Hugging Him Goes Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amber Wright was like any other proud parent when she took to Instagram to show how happy she was with her son Brixton after his football game in Utah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video uploaded on social media of the pair shows them embracing, with the son picking his mom up, who then wraps her arms and legs around him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viewers have been left divided by the viral footage, with some supportive and understanding, while others have taken issue with how affectionate the mom is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wright has defended herself and now Brixton has issued a response too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The boy who went viral after his mom hugged him following an American football game has now spoken out, making a heartbreaking confession.  Credit: @ambslund\/Instagram<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People in the comments are offering their support to the pair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One person writes: \u201cMy son is six and calls me beautiful all day long. Boys love their mamas, nothing wrong with that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Someone else comments: \u201cLeave this family alone. They just hugged, why does it matter how it looked to everyone else and what it really meant for these two? We as people need to do better and worry about what\u2019s going on in our own lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou owe no one no explanation\/apologies young king. You and your mom are blessed to have each other,\u201d adds a third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amber Wright and her son Brixton were subject to backlash after a video of them hugging went viral. Credit: @ambslund\/Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Posting in the comments on his mom\u2019s video, son Brixton replies: \u201cSome of you need Jesus. She\u2019s my mom I did pick her up she didn\u2019t jump on me it was a hug, get the f*** over it for real.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further down, he responds directly to someone else telling people to leave his mom \u2018alone\u2019 before calling her his \u2018hero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently, the single mother took to Instagram again to share a text message from Brixton \u2013 in which he shared that his father had sadly taken his own life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To honor him, he wore the number 44 jersey, which is the day and month that he died, April 4th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the caption for the post, Wright says that she \u2018will hold her head high\u2019 as she continues to raise Brixton, before signing it off by calling him her hero too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The text message reads: \u201cMy mom is my hero. I was just giving her a hug after the game and I did pick her up. She did not jump on me. My mom\u2019s been the only person there for me my whole life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI grew up with an alcoholic dad who would just come and go when he wanted. He was great when he was sober but he wasn\u2019t, he was just so dark and different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amber has since shared her own defense of the controversial hug in a recent Instagram post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She posted: \u201cBTW\u2026 y\u2019all who tried to break us \u2013 you FAILED. Miserably actually<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t like me but you\u2019re still here watching me a year later, you\u2019re a fan and I appreciate your ongoing support.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amber Wright was like any other proud parent when she took to Instagram to show how happy she was with her son Brixton after his football game in Utah. The video uploaded on social media of the pair shows them embracing, with the son picking his mom up, who then wraps her arms and legs…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5549,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547\/revisions\/5549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}