A grief-stricken Madonna Badger walked out of a Manhattan funeral home this morning where a private wake for her three daughters and parents who died in a tragic Christmas Day fire at her Connecticut home is set to be held.
Two men accompanied the high-powered fashion advertising exec as she walked out of the Frank E. Campbell funeral home on the Upper East Side.
Maddona Badger leaves the Frank E. Campbell funeral home Wednesday. (Riyad Hasan)
She did not speak to reporters as she walked along Madison Avenue.
The wake will come after The Post reported today that the live embers that sparked the inferno that killed three little girls were taken out of the fireplace because the children feared they’d injure Santa Claus, investigators revealed — hours after their grief-stricken mom made a somber return to the tragic scene.
Badger — her face and head wrapped in a long scarf — returned for the first time Monday to the ruins of her $1.7 million Stamford, Conn., home to go through the few belongings not consumed in the blaze that killed her daughters, 10-year-old Lily and 7-year-old twins Grace and Sarah.
Badger’s parents, Lomer and Pauline Johnson, also died in the blaze.
Two men accompanied Badger as she walked bravely past the crime-scene tape and a fence surrounding the property toward her still-standing garage. The house has been razed.
She was warmly embraced by a small group of supportive girlfriends.
Badger and her friends then entered the garage, spending more than an hour inside before emerging with several large bags of personal items.
Hours later, authorities told The Associated Press about the girls’ heartbreakingly tragic request.
Badger’s contractor beau, Mike Borcina, put the ashes outside in a bag, without dousing them with water. The wind carried them back toward the house, investigators have said.
Badger and Borcina escaped the flames that engulfed the 19th-century Victorian mansion, which was under renovation.
After her gut-wrenching trip to Connecticut, Badger returned to upstate New York, where she remained in seclusion with family until returning to the city this morning.
The deaths have been ruled accidental.