Sisters Go Viral for TikTok Confessions to Late Mom [Video]

Three sisters in New York are embodying the old adage that laughter is the best medicine, using viral TikToks to apologize for and confess things to their late mother.

After mom Karen died of pancreatic cancer in July 2022, Sara Wollner, 31, “felt isolated,” having already lost her dad as a child. 

“I was only 30 and I had lost both my parents,” Wollner tells PEOPLE. “So I started posting on TikTok — I always say selfishly — because I really wanted to use it as an outlet and maybe connect with others who had lost people in their lives.”

The idea for the confessions to their mom came to Wollner in part from inspiration from other TikToks she had seen, she says.

One night in November, she texted her sister, Katie Riggins, 33, who was already headed over that night and floated the “confessions to mom” idea.

“We literally did …