Former Fox News host Eric Bolling revealed at a Thursday White House summit on the opioid crisis two phone calls between himself and President Donald Trump after losing his son to a drug overdose.

Bolling said the day after the loss of his son on September 9, 2017, his phone rang before a meeting with a doctor on the day he was to see his son’s body at the coroner’s office. “It was President Trump, he said ‘Eric, I don’t how you’re doing I just want you to know you’re in my thoughts and in my prayers.'”

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Bolling remarked that weeks later at Thanksgiving, he and his family had to see the empty chair without his son. “I knew what was about to happen, we’re going to go sit down, see the empty chair, and we’re all going to break down.”

He said that as soon as the turkey was on the table, he got a call from Trump. The president wanted to comfort him on his first holiday without his son and told him to let him know if he needed anything. Bolling said he took the opportunity to ask Trump if he could work with the administration to combat the opioid crisis.

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