The parents of WMGT anchor Taylor Terrell say losing their daughter in an accident a day before her birthday didn’t make sense at first.
“I guess it didn’t sink in that night – it didn’t make sense,” her father Louis Terrell told Atlanta NBC affiliate WXIA.
Terrell, an Atlanta native, was taking time off work to celebrate turning 25. She died after losing her footing and being swept over Rainbow Falls inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and falling 185 feet.
Her parents say she lived for broadcasting.
“She was my news lady in the mornings and everyone that knew me, I showed them, ‘This is my daughter,’ you know,” her mother Quovardis said. “It didn’t matter who it was.”
“I used to call her my baby girl and I told her you’ll always be my baby whether you like it or not,” said her father. “You’ll always be my baby.”