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In 2007, Luke Bryan<\/a>‘s sister Kelly suddenly died\u2014and no one’s ever fully known why.<\/p>\n She was a healthy, 39-year-old mother of three who died at home. Her death was part of a succession of family tragedies in the Bryan family, which also included\u2014seven years later\u2014the death of Kelly’s husband Ben Lee Cheshire. That’s why Bryan and his wife Caroline adopted their three children, who ranged in age from 13 to 20 at the time.<\/p>\n But fans have never fully understood why Kelly died, and many have assumed that the Bryan family were concealing her true cause of death from the public.<\/p>\n Previously, Bryan simply said<\/a> it was “like someone turned the lights out.”<\/p>\n He was careful to steer speculation away from theories about overdose or suicide, but other than that, he didn’t offer too many answers.<\/p>\n Now, in a revealing and emotional new interview on CNN’s\u00a0All There Is<\/em> podcast<\/a>, Bryan tells host Anderson Cooper that there’s a simple reason why he’s never shared why his sister died.<\/p>\n READ MORE: 23 Tragic Country Music Deaths<\/span> <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n “I’ve never really explained what happened with my sister,” Bryan says in the newly-released conversation.<\/p>\n “There’s some misinformation out there on the Internet. And I think some people … wonder what happened and think we that we’ve tried to cover it up,”\u00a0he continues.<\/p>\n But the unsatisfying truth is that, after multiple autopsies, coroners couldn’t find any reason why Kelly died that day.<\/p>\n “There is a very, very small percentage of people that die for no reason in the world. It’s called sudden death syndrome,” Bryan explains.<\/p>\n “That’s essentially what they described my sister’s death as. She was in her home doing her laundry and … it was like, you know, somebody just turned the switch off on her,” he shares.<\/p>\nHow Did Luke Bryan’s Sister Kelly Die?<\/strong><\/h3>\n