Patrick Clancy offers first TV interview after Lindsay Clancy mistrial – NBC Los Angeles

The ex-husband of Lindsay Clancy gave his first televised interview to “60 Minutes” on CBS Information on Sunday after a jury deadlocked in her trial for killing their three younger youngsters.

Patrick Clancy talked concerning the grief of dropping his youngsters and addressed social media conspiracy theories surrounding the case, which have included unfounded claims he was linked to the dying of his youngsters. His new spouse, Dr. Rachel Danis, additionally joined him within the interview.

He additionally confirmed that he and Danis are beginning a household, with out providing additional particulars.

“I feel each mother or father can agree you’ve totally different relationships together with your youngsters, however they’re all of your youngsters. I can not wait to inform them about their brothers and sister,” he stated.

Patrick stated he first began to note that one thing wasn’t proper with Lindsay in October of 2022, when she went a number of nights with out sleeping.

“She got here downstairs one morning and stated, ‘I did not sleep in any respect final night time,’ so I stated, ‘That is terrible, I will take the children to highschool. You simply deal with getting caught up on sleep.'”

He stated he did not know something on the time about postpartum melancholy.

“I might piece collectively what it was prefer to be actually anxious or depressed, however I did not know find out how to handle a postpartum sickness,” he stated. “I feel psychological sickness has this capability to be tragically misleading, so I am positive there have been issues I did not see.”

Patrick stated he struggled to assist Lindsay navigate the medical system.

“I feel December, December was a giant battle for her. Simply an enormous lack of sleep, deep, deep melancholy, intrusive ideas, and on the finish of that month she went to the hospital.”

Lindsay returned house on Jan. 7, 2023, for his or her daughter Cora’s birthday. Seventeen days later, she strangled her three youngsters. Cora and Dawson, the 2 oldest, died that night time, however the youngest, 8-month-old Callan, lived for 4 extra days.

“So I did not have all the small print of Callan’s situation. I simply knew they acquired a heartbeat again, so I keep in mind that night time I actually thought there was an opportunity that Callan would dwell, and I bear in mind pondering, ‘Simply give me one, give me one child,’ and I’d elevate him as finest I might, give him the very best life I probably might, and I’d inform him about his brother and sister,” Patrick stated. “I used to be holding out hope for that, and once I acquired to the hospital and noticed the physician, I noticed the look on her face and knew it wasn’t going to be an excellent prognosis.”

“I am so grateful for these 4 days I had with him. I stated, ‘I am so sorry,’ and I acquired to carry him, I acquired to put down subsequent to him, and he died in my arms.”

Patrick additionally spoke about why he in the end selected to forgive Lindsay.

“I noticed headlines that stated, ‘Killer Mother’, ‘Child Assassin’, and ‘Monster’, and none of them have been correct. I consider it was her psychological sickness that precipitated that,” he stated. “In relation to forgiveness, I felt that if I did not get there, I’d be eaten up inside without end.”

Patrick stated he requested Lindsay if she remembered what she did, and he or she instructed him, “it was like a dream.”

Requested if he seems like he failed, Patrick stated, “I feel I did the very best I might with what I had on the time, and I dwell with the end result. I dwell with it on daily basis.”

He additionally revealed that he had suicidal ideas himself.

“There was a day I did not suppose I would dwell to see my thirty fifth birthday, and I used to be fully wonderful with it.”

He stated he desires about his youngsters “on a regular basis,” recounting one dream about six months or a yr after they died the place Cora walked in and he stated ‘The place have you ever been?’ and he or she got here as much as him and gave him a giant hug.

“These desires are so actual. It is like I am lucid in these desires.”

As for the web rumors that circulated about Patrick through the trial, he stated they have been “deeply dangerous” to his youngsters’s legacy.

“It’s a enormous distraction from what actually issues right here, which is perinatal well being, and it is performed actual hurt to individuals, myself included. It is painful to see and it makes it tough to be in public, and it is doable that a few of these individuals, after seeing lie after lie after lie, they begin to consider it, and that is what we’re left with.”

Danis additionally joined the interview briefly, recounting how she met Patrick at a run membership, and the 2 have been married in New York Metropolis in April of 2026.

“I at all times attempt to take a number of the weight from Pat,” she stated. “I can not deliver his youngsters again, but when I can honor them and permit Pat to grieve, but in addition proceed to honor them within the current, I suppose that is all I can do.”..

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Earlier this month, 11 of 12 jurors have been able to clear Lindsay Clancy of prison accountability, with the bulk feeling that the Massachusetts mother was within the grip of a uncommon situation known as postpartum psychosis when she strangled her youngsters in 2023. However a lone juror sided with the prosecutors, who had argued that Clancy knew what she was doing. The impasse pressured a choose to declare a mistrial on Sept. 4.

In the course of the trial, neither facet disputed that Clancy strangled her youngsters, Cora, Dawson and Callan, within the household’s house earlier than attempting to finish her personal life. However her legal professional stated she was a loving mom experiencing deep delusions and different psychological well being issues, for which she had been getting therapy.

The Plymouth County district legal professional has but to say whether or not he’ll search to place Clancy on trial once more.