Phaedra Parks says business is booming during the coronavirus pandemic. Parks, who is currently on “Marriage Bootcamp”, is a licensed funeral director and mortician.
She told Page Six that business is “booming” due to the loss of lives caused by the pandemic.
“Oh my gosh, it’s going great,” she gushed during a Page Six podcast on Wednesday. “Didn’t you hear about that pandemic, girl? We are booming. Unfortunately. We have been jam-packed since the pandemic started.”
Parks said she’s seen the devastation caused by the infectious disease.
“I’m not a physician, however, I do have a mortuary and I’ll tell you this: Normally in the summer months, we’re waiting for a boating accident or a motorcycle crash, because otherwise, we’re pretty empty,” she said.
“We are jam-packed. We are working like it’s our heaviest season, so… I tell people when they say, ‘It’s a joke, it’s not that big of a deal,’ well, let me put it to you in real terms, I’m getting 17 calls a day for [corpse] pickups and that’s at one location. Last week, all of the people were under 59.”
She said seeing so many victims in their 20s “makes it extremely frightening… I’ve seen several mothers come in burying their children… the pandemic really wreaks havoc on families, so we’ve buried three or four people in one immediate family. It’s really sad. It definitely takes a toll on you emotionally seeing a mother, a father, a son, an aunt… this pandemic is really serious and people should realize that, because it’s not a joke.”
Parks, who is currently in a long distance relationship with L.A.-based boyfriend Medina Islam, said the heavy workload gives her little time to cultivate her love life.
“I’ve got several jobs. But when it comes to relationships, I haven’t always been so successful with it,” Parks said of her decision to go on Marriage Bootcamp. “I wanted to make sure that the passion didn’t cloud my judgment, because… when you’re entangled, sometimes the entangling can be so good you can’t really [think] outside the entanglement.”
