HEARTBREAKING MOMENT 💔 HGTV’s David Bromstad struggled to hold back tears as he read an emotional text from a close friend — calling it “𝑚𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼’𝑚 𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛.”

“Like it—” he continues, before cutting himself off as he starts to get emotional. While fanning his face in an effort to stop the tears, he then begins to read the message.

“No one is like us, girl. We’ve come from the deepest depths and rise to the stars,” he says. “We’ve crashed, burned, gotten up, slid down life’s hardest mountains. You’ve always been my rope when I’m barely holding on.”

He pauses as his voice begins to shake again from the tears. Fanning his face once more, he continues: “You are my Frodo in the dark, my Thelma with a getaway plan, my Romy on the dance floor, my Maverick in the danger zone, and my Lucy when it’s time to cause a little chaos.”

Still holding back tears, he then reads the final sentence: “And still we’re just getting started.”

As both women begin to get emotional as well, Bromstad says, “Isn’t that amazing? Besties are like no other. So thank you for sharing your relationship with me.”

“That wasn’t a text, that was poetry,” the caption reads.

The sweet clip comes after Bromstad thanked his fans for their “incredible support” after he got personal about his past struggles on his HGTV special, My Lottery Dream Home: David’s Happy Ending, which aired on Dec. 19.

He expressed his gratitude in a Dec. 24 Instagram Reel before giving a tour of his new Florida home all decked out for the holidays.

“I wanted to thank everyone for the incredible support that you guys have given me after the show,” he said in the video, referring to the special. “It’s been great [and] super amazing.”

During David’s Happy Ending, Bromstad got extremely vulnerable with his fans when he decided to open up about “using substances” and checking himself into a treatment “program” after his Florida home was all but destroyed mid-renovation.

The designer recalled “starting to spiral” during the interruption to the renovation process and feeling like “everything was in chaos.”

“I got into some unhealthy behaviors and it’s really easy to go there when you’re under distress,” he added. “Using substances has been…it’s a real easy escape to take yourself out of a stressful situation.”

After knowing he was “in trouble,” Bromstad decided to step away from the construction and took a year-long break. While he was off, he took a healing trip to his ancestral homeland of Norway for his 50th birthday.

He also got candid about the origins of his trauma as a teen — “I was super depressed. I was super bullied,” he shared — and why he turned to a treatment program while filming. “I think with the house, with where I’m at emotionally, physically, spiritually, psychologically, everything has stopped. I was literally screaming out for help,” he said.

“I need to talk. I need to climb out of this hole. I need to understand why I climbed into it in the first place,” he added.