The devastated father of former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst who jumped to her death from a Manhattan high-rise, has broken his silence.
Kryst, 30, was found on the sidewalk next to her luxury apartment building, The Orion in Hell’s Kitchen at 7:15am on Sunday January 30.
She was last seen on a 29th-floor terrace of the building, where she lived alone in a ninth-floor apartment.
Rodney Kryst, 62, claimed that his daughter may have been depressed due to ‘family dysfunction,’ adding that his daughter was ‘pure’ and that she didn’t have any sort of substance abuse problem.
Robert Kryst and Cheslie’s mother, April Simpkins, who have four children together, split up when Cheslie was young, he said.
‘She was pure, she didn’t take any kind of drugs or prescription medication,’ he said while briefing reporters. ‘She never had any kind of substance abuse problem.’
Kryst, who is a Polish-American former bodybuilder, said he believes her depression and death had to do with ‘family dysfunction.’
