ABC NEWS: Duke fan continues emotional journey to Final Four in honor of her late father.
This weekend is really driving home our relationship with sports as a community. For a lot of people what happens between the lines is deeply personal. Rebecca Feinglos, a Duke fan who grew up in Durham, has ridden a wave of emotions right into New Orleans."I grew up going to Duke games", says Feinglos. "Duke basketball and my relationship with my dad are like one and the same."For over 40 years, Mark Feinglos worked at Duke as a doctor in the school of medicine and held season tickets at Cameron Indoor Stadium."And like I was at Duke games like in the womb and spent my entire life doing that with my father," Feinglos said. Almost two years ago as the pandemic began, Mark's life came to an end at the age of 72.
ELLE: Divorce party makes Adele cry at her own concert.
Adele broke down in tears as she continued her Weekends with Adele concerts in Las Vegas. When the singer was interacting with the public at Caesars Palace, she learned that a woman was having a "divorce party" with 13 of her friends after the separation. Rebecca Feinglos and she uploaded the experience of her “UNwed” (single) party. Adele, who split from ex-husband Simon Konecki in 2020, told her: "I know all about heartbreak. I got a little emotional before, now I'm really crying. I have tears running down my cheeks," she said and was really in tears. The moment went viral thanks to the other attendees and in fact, Rebecca's TikTok video looks like the most epic party to come out of a divorce.
NEWSWEEK: Woman Whose Divorce Made Adele Cry at Her Concert Reveals All About Grief.
At the end of 2021, she quit her job and embarked on a mission—every day in 2022 she was going to do at least one thing to grieve. When Feinglos embarked on what she dubbed "Grieve Leave," she never guessed it would take her where it did.
"It started as an idea a year and a half ago that maybe I might feel better, less overwhelmed in my life, if I spent time focusing on my grief for all of these different losses," Feinglos told Newsweek. "For the deaths of my parents, for the end of my marriage, for leaving a job that I loved, for what we lost during the pandemic. It's a lot of grief. A lot of loss. And I wasn't talking about it."
THE NEWS & OBSERVER: Her father, a Duke doctor, died as she dealt with pandemic. Now, she must grieve alone.
This weekend is really driving home our relationship with sports as a community. For a lot of people what happens between the lines is deeply personal. Rebecca Feinglos, a Duke fan who grew up in Durham, has ridden a wave of emotions right into New Orleans.
"I grew up going to Duke games", says Feinglos. "Duke basketball and my relationship with my dad are like one and the same."
For over 40 years, Mark Feinglos worked at Duke as a doctor in the school of medicine and held season tickets at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
"And like I was at Duke games like in the womb and spent my entire life doing that with my father," Feinglos said.
Almost two years ago as the pandemic began, Mark's life came to an end at the age of 72.
Experience Camps: Out On Grieve Leave.
The idea of “grieve leave” came to Rebecca Feinglos, age 32, after her father died unexpectedly at the beginning of COVID lockdown. Her mom had died when she was a teen, and suddenly she realized she was “an orphan.” Rebecca separated from her husband less than a year after her father died, and she got shingles at the end of November 2020 due to stress. She felt alone and “suffocated by my own grief.” She decided to leave her job to grieve all of the losses that were consuming her, documenting her Grieve Leave along the way. Below she shared more with us about the journey.
METRO: ‘I made Adele cry on stage with my divorce party – here’s how she empowered me to leave a marriage that no longer served me.’
Imagine making Adele cry on stage. Well, Rebecca Feinglos did exactly that while celebrating what can only be described as a seriously iconic ‘divorce party’.
The Grammy-winning star is currently performing her Weekends With Adele shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
To say the shows have been an emotional rollercoaster would be an understatement (it is Adele, after all), but one fan was involved in a particularly special moment with the singer.
Rebecca attended the star’s show with 13 friends following her marriage split but, rather than feel down and wallow in her pain, she chose to don a ‘divorced babe’ tiara, a sash, and have the time of her life, feeling empowered by the choice she made to move on from what no longer served her
LIFEHACKER: Maybe Your Divorce Deserves a Party.
"A divorce party is about celebrating the bravery it takes to end a relationship in a world where that’s so often stigmatized,” says Rebecca Feinglos, founder of the online community and blog Grieve Leave, and whose own divorce party went viral, tells Lifehacker. “Ending a marriage is a huge loss that we grieve, even if we were the person who initiated the separation. In the U.S. and around the world, divorce can be a drawn-out, painful legal process, leading to its own trauma. We can throw a divorce party to celebrate facing that grief and trauma head-on, and to celebrate the strength it takes to make it to the other side of the complicated process.”
