AceShowbiz - Amber Smith opens up that social media trolls are still blaming her for her son River Kelly's tragic death. Making use of her Instagram account, the wife of Granger Smith revealed that she's still receiving "cruel" texts three years after the fatal incident.

On Tuesday, July 5, the 40-year-old actress posted via Instagram Story a screenshot of a comment on her page. "Why would you be such irresponsible parents?!?" one hater asked. "Teach babies to swim, fence the pool, PROTECT your children! This is your fault, you KILLED your win [sic] kid. Truly disgusting."

In response, Amber quoted James 3:6, "The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison."

Amber later added that she has found herself forgiving those who make hateful comments. "I can't fault these people. We live in a fallen world," she pointed out. "It's taken me 3 years to not let these comments hurt me, but I forgive them. I am rooted in Jesus."

One day earlier, Amber shared a screenshot, showing one direct message from her follower. In it, the said follower wrote, "Why was he not being properly protected and supervised? Not my business, not trying to be cruel."

The hater went on to reference Amber and Granger's 10-month-old son, Maverick, writing, "To have a beautiful baby drown and then just have another kid like, oops sorry about that one we'll just have another and replace him. How do you guys … move on?" The lengthy message continued to slam the couple for River's "100 percent preventable" death, calling their rainbow baby's arrival in August 2021 "disrespectful."

Amber then sarcastically penned, "Not her business and she's not judging or trying to be cruel though. The Lord is my strength when we still, three years later, receive these messages."

Amber and Granger's 3-year-old son River Kelly died in a tragic drowning accident in June 2019. Last month, Amber unveiled how she and her husband told their eldest children about their brother's death.

"We had to be very honest from the very beginning," Amber said in a conversation with Hayley Hubbard and Jessica Diamond of Dear Media's "Meaning Full Living" podcast. "We went home with that intention of being very honest ... We said, 'River was without oxygen for too long. They did everything that they could but Bubbie died.' "

Amber then shared that she and Granger allowed the kids to see them grieving as well. The couple also made the brave decision to share a lot of that experience on social media. "So many times, it was not pretty ... sobbing tears, screaming in my car, punching my steering wheel, sitting by his bed, holding his blanket crying until nothing came out. That's where I was and that's what's real and I think people don't talk about [it]," she said.