Heidi Powell is revealing how she got “closure” with her ex Dave Hollis hours before he died on Feb. 11, 2023, at age 47.
The fitness trainer and YouTube star revealed on the “Him & Her Podcast” that she and Hollis, a former Disney executive, had engaged in “beautiful” conversations about their relationship and painful split.
“It was like his soul knew it was time because he sent me the most insightful (text) like, ‘Hey coming to grips with where you and I are. It doesn’t mean, like, I’m not just losing you, you are not just losing me, we are losing our kids,'” Powell recalled while speaking to the podcast’s hosts, Lauryn Evarts Bosstick and Michael Bosstick.
Hollis was also, “telling me how much I meant to him,” said Powell.
“It was the most beautiful day of text messages and phone conversations ever,” she recalled. “There is closure with him, the most beautiful closure.”
“I feel complete,” she added. “I’m like, man, this is why they say never go to bed mad at your spouse. Never. We weren’t spouses. But never go to bed holding a grudge.”
Hollis died of the “toxic effects of cocaine, ethanol and fentanyl,” according to the autopsy report from the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office in Austin, Texas, obtained by NBC News in April 2023.
High blood pressure and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, were also listed as contributing conditions in Hollis’ death, which was ruled accidental.
Powell also revealed on the podcast that Hollis had been struggling with depression because of online criticism about him.
“I think some people have an easier time dealing with criticism than others, and that was really difficult for him,” said Powell. “I think that was the root of his depression, was what people said online.”
Hollis, said Powell, was “really affected” by the negativity.
Hollis was a father to four children — Jackson, Sawyer, Ford and Noah — whom he shared with his ex-wife, author Rachel Hollis. The couple announced their split in 2020 after 16 years of marriage.
Powell, who began dating Hollis after his divorce, paid tribute to Hollis after his death in a heartbreaking post on Instagram.
“You loved me so well, Dave. You loved your kids and your people so deeply. Your heart was far too big for this world… and I was the lucky one who got to see and experience the magnitude and depth of your infinite love,” Powell wrote alongside a carousel of photos of the pair and their respective children.
After Hollis’ cause of death was revealed in August 2023, Powell shared an update in a video on Instagram.”None of what I know now takes away from the life he was in this world and it doesn’t take away from the things I love about him,” she said of Hollis.
She also revealed in the video that she and Hollis split before he died.