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GoFundMe page.“Bobby was a loving husband, father, brother and friend. On April 28th, he was a tragic victim of suicide. Bobby was full of life and laughs, but also weighed down by financial pressures.

Queen of Disco in the ’70s, the suicidal singer hit rock bottom.“The most dismal days of my existence were at the height of my career,” says the late legend in the new documentary “Love To Love You, Donna Summer,” which premieres on HBO and HBO Max May 20. In fact, while Summer was riding high from the success of her breakout hit, the orgasmic classic “Love To Love You Baby,” she was enduring an abusive relationship with artist Peter Mühldorfer. One severe beating even left her unconscious, with a black eye and broken ribs.“I hit her, and I never could forgive myself,” says Mühldorfer in the doc.And having grown up in a deeply religious household — her father smacked her for wearing red nail polish because “that’s what whores wore” — Summer was highly conflicted about her image as a sex goddess from hits such as “Love To Love You Baby,” “I Feel Love” and later “Hot Stuff.” In reality, she was more church girl than “Bad Girl.”“You’re looking at me, but what you see is not what I am,” she says in the film, which is co-directed by her daughter Brooklyn Sudano and Oscar winner Roger Ross Williams.

Drew Barrymore Show” Wednesday — which led to the host’s shocking confession.“I felt like I was putting on this facade and living this role I had been assigned, and it just all caught up to me one day,” Beer shared.The 24-year-old, who was discovered by Justin Bieber, opened up about her challenges in her memoir “The Half of It.”“I was struggling alone for so long, and I felt like I didn’t have anyone,” she said.But once Beer realized she wasn’t the only person who faced dark thoughts, she knew she had to speak up.During the sit-down interview, Barrymore revealed she also overcame suicidal thoughts.“I’ve been there. I related on levels that are difficult to talk about,” she said.In the past, Barrymore has been vocal about her childhood drug addiction and how she recovered.“I don’t know if I really wanted to leave the Earth.

a statement in Korean posted to social media.The message, which was translated into English by the K-pop media company Koreaboo, said: “On April 19, Astro member Moonbin suddenly left us to become a star in the sky.”The statement continued, “Although we cannot compare our sorrow to the grief that the bereaved families are feeling, losing a beloved son and brother, the Astro members, fellow Fantagio artists, company executives and employees are mourning the deceased in great sadness and shock.”The Post reached out to Fantagio for further comment. An official cause of death has yet to be announced, but local officials told Yonhap News TV that he was found dead around 8:10 p.m.

he went missing and told his family he was going to get drunk and hang himself, according to a 911 call obtained by TMZ.It was initially unclear why cops were concerned for Bell’s well-being.In the 911 call, an officer from the Orlando Police Department was speaking to someone in another department to try to get a location on the Nickelodeon star’s cell phone.The police offer described the circumstance as a “possible attempted suicide” and explained, “Basically, there is a celebrity who had a falling out with his wife.”The Post has reached out to the Orlando Police Department and Bell’s reps for comment.Orlando PD said they got involved in the case when they were told that Bell, 36, was in a hotel room in Orlando and threatening suicide over texts to his family back in California.Reports of the 911 call come after the “Drake & Josh” star took to Twitter to joke about the incident, seemingly brushing it off as no big deal.“You leave your phone in the car and don’t answer for the night and this?” he tweeted, adding a crying laughing emoji.Law enforcement confirmed Thursday that Bell was safe and in touch with cops.“At this time, we can confirm law enforcement officials are in contact and Mr.

belted out a rendition of Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is” accompanied by superstar Ashley McBryde, 39. “Mama, you need to be here,” said Judd about midway through the performance. “And I miss you, and I love you, and I don’t understand.”The elder Judd died by suicide at age 76 on April 30, 2022, the day before she and her daughter were slated to join the Country Music Hall of Fame.“Today we sisters experienced a tragedy.

DailyMail.com.She was addressing the tragedy that came to light last Wednesday after authorities found the 35-year-old’s body at the bottom of an apartment complex in Miami. While witnesses claimed that Thomas had jumped intentionally, Batista wasn’t convinced that was the case.“He may have fallen while he was taking a selfie,” postulated the agent, who deemed suicide particularly unlikely given that she’d spoken to the Floridian less than 24 hours before his death.

TMZ reported.While the autopsy has been completed, officials haven’t officially disclosed a cause of death at this time. However, suicide is suspected, according to the outlet.A fixture in the modeling world, Thomas had been signed to London-based agency AMCK, and appeared in various runway shows, magazines and commercials.

her suicide five months ago on April 30.“[She] was always so determined. No matter what happened to her,” Judd, 58, told People. “A single white female raising two babies by herself.

Anthony Bourdain may have overcome his drug addiction but was never able to stop drinking — and hated himself for it, a new controversial biography alleged.In “Down And Out In Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain,” which will be released Oct. 11, author Charles Leerhsen spoke to The Guardian about Bourdain’s sad, final days.The American chef and TV presenter hanged himself in a French hotel room in June 2018.

ex, Asia Argento — sent just a few hours before his tragic suicide in a French hotel room on June 8, 2018.Excerpts from “Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain” were published in Tuesday’s edition of the New York Times.The unauthorized biography written by reporter Charles Leerhsen will be released Oct. 11 and contains the texts as well as Bourdain’s online search history.Leerhsen describes the celebrity chef’s life before his suicide as “isolated,” with him “injecting steroids, drinking to the point of blackout and visiting prostitutes, and had all but vanished from his 11-year-old daughter’s life.”The book also chronicles his “last, painful days” when he saw photos of Argento, now 47, dancing with journalist Hugo Clément at a hotel in Rome, the last time they communicated.“I am okay,” Bourdain texted Argento, who he began dating in 2016, after he viewed the photographs.The book noted how the “Parts Unknown” star had searched Argento’s name online  “hundreds” of times after he saw the snaps.“I am not spiteful,” the text continued. “I am not jealous that you have been with another man.

The Washington Post.The scheme allegedly took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, when schools were closed for over a year and were struggling to connect students to virtual learning platforms. Prosecutors claim Ward took advantage of the situation to put in orders for technology that never materialized, instead using the money to purchase a $169,000 property in West Virginia, at least nine vehicles — including two Teslas worth $218,000 and a Ford F-450 worth $120,000 — and assorted art and sports memorabilia.

brief from the world’s top crisis intervention and suicide prevention organization, LGBTQ youth with one parent in the military face 17% higher odds of experiencing anxiety symptoms, 14%  higher odds of contemplating suicide, and are nearly 40% more likely to have reported attempting suicide in the past year.The data backing up these findings was drawn from The Trevor Project’s 2021 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health, which surveyed nearly 35,000 LGBTQ youth ranging in age from 13 to 24 years old.Overall, 5% of LGBTQ-identifying youth reported having a parent currently in the military, a figure that rises to 7% when just counting those youth who are under 18 years old. Geographically, LGBTQ youth in the South report higher rates of having a parent in the military, at 7%, compared to only 4% in the Northeast and Midwest and 5% in the West.

discovering her mother Naomi after her suicide in April.Judd, 54, described “the most shattering day of [her] life” in a personal essay in the New York Times, recalling finding her mother still alive and holding her.“The trauma of discovering and then holding her laboring body haunts my nights,” Judd wrote.While all Judd wanted to do was comfort her mom, law enforcement officers began interviewing her and kept her away from Naomi during the last moments of her life, leaving her feeling “cornered and powerless.”“I wanted to be comforting her, telling her how she was about to see her daddy and younger brother as she ‘went away home,’ as we say in Appalachia,” Judd said. “Instead, without it being indicated I had any choices about when, where and how to participate, I began a series of interviews that felt mandatory and imposed on me that drew me away from the precious end of my mother’s life.”Judd felt as though the officers were making her out to be a “possible suspect” just moments after she found her mother’s body.“The men who were present left us feeling stripped of any sensitive boundary, interrogated and, in my case, as if I was a possible suspect in my mother’s suicide,” she recalled.Naomi died by suicide at 76 years old from a self-inflicted gun wound on April 30 after years of struggling with mental illness.In the months since Naomi’s passing, many details of her death have been released to the public, including videos, images and family interviews, and Judd is now fighting to get her family privacy. “I don’t know that we’ll be able to get the privacy we deserve…I do know that we’re not alone,” Judd said in her essay.

according to the official autopsy report, which also revealed that she left a suicide note. The late 76-year-old singer was found “unresponsive in her home by family” at 10:57 a.m.

Lil Nas X was awarded the inaugural Suicide Prevention Advocate of the Year Award in September from the advocacy group The Trevor Project. Photo: The Trevor Project.

The United States has a new three-digit number for mental health emergencies — 988. The new number goes live on Saturday, July 16, 2022, replacing the 1-800-273-8255 number first issued in 2005.By changing the hotline to a three-digit number — along the lines of 911 — Vibrant Emotional Health, the New York-based nonprofit that administers the Lifeline number, is hopeful more people in need will use the service. Former President Trump signed the new number into law in 2020 with the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020. (The former 11-digit number will remain operational for those who choose to use it.)“It’s a new number, but it’s not a new service,” said Doctor John Draper, executive director of Lifeline.

told TMZ. “She was very open with her followers about her struggles, even wanting to help followers who also suffered.” A nonprofit titled “Peace from Niece” is set to be created in her honor, according to TMZ, which will aid mental health awareness and fund mental illness research.Law enforcement informed TMZ they received a phone call from a concerned family member who asked officers to check on Waidhofer in her Houston, Texas home last month.There, her body was discovered.The model had 4.2 million followers on her Instagram, where she regularly shared posts captured and written by herself.

alopecia. The “Gotham” actress, 50, recently sat down with Niki Ball, the mother of a 12-year-old girl, Rio, who tragically cut her young life short after being bullied for her alopecia. The severe, escalating abuse the girl suffered reportedly included getting “smacked” on the head by other students, being called names like “naked mole rat” and even having her wig “ripped off her head.” Rio committed suicide on March 14, 2022.In a clip from an upcoming, tear-filled episode of Pinkett Smith’s Facebook Watch show “Red Table Talk,” obtained by People, Ball explained that Rio developed alopecia during the coronavirus pandemic and her hair started falling out “by the handful.” It began with a bald spot on her scalp, and shortly after Rio was diagnosed with alopecia areata.The condition is categorized as an autoimmune disorder that causes one’s hair to come out in clumps.

wove in a bit of Led Zeppelin’s “In My Time of Dying.” In a macabre twist, Cornell was pronounced dead just a few hours after the concert at 1:30 a.m. on May 18.

her supposed lover — then-U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy — at her Brentwood, Calif., estate., Marilyn Monroe’s nude, lifeless body was reportedly found by her housekeeper.

found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the death of her then-boyfriend Conrad Roy in 2014. Her story has been dramatized in the Hulu series “The Girl From Plainville,” with Elle Fanning playing Carter, Colton Ryan playing Conrad Roy, and Chloe Sevigny playing Lynn Roy, Conrad’s mother. Carter made headlines in 2014 and 2015 when a Massachusetts judge ruled that her words (through texting and phone calls) coerced 18-year-old Roy into dying by suicide. She was sentenced to 15 months in prison, which she served from February 2019 to January 2020 —she got released 3 months early due to good conduct.In addition to “The Girl From Plainville,” Carter and Roy’s story has also been covered in the 2019 HBO documentary, “I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth Vs.

death of Miss Alabama 2021 Zoe Sozo Bethel revealed that the beauty queen reportedly attempted to die by suicide by leaping off a building in Miami, Florida.The Miami Police Department reported that the 27-year-old model had jumped from a seven-story condo in the Edgewater neighborhood, which left her in a coma for over a week before she succumbed to traumatic brain injuries, the Daily Mail reported. A week prior to her death, family members had reported that Bethel was involved in an unspecified “accident.” However, following a standard investigation, the Miami PD ruled the incident a suicide attempt.Bethel’s family members haven’t respond to the Post’s request for comment.The Alabama native’s death originally came to light via a statement her family posted to the pageant star’s Instagram page Sunday.“On Friday, February 18, 2022, at approximately 5:30AM Eastern time in Miami, Florida, our beloved Zoe Sozo Bethel passed from this life into the next as a result of succumbing to her injuries,” they wrote.

was found dead at his home in Stockton, California, on Oct. 25. He was 22.

The Oklahoman newspaper, as a “public service announcement.”Posting under the handle @savagegent77, McGuire said in the video that he was speaking to parents who think it’s “okay for your child to decide if they want to be a girl or a boy or whatever other ridiculous-[expletive] pronoun you can come up with.”“It’s going to be a shock, I understand, there are only two genders,” McGuire said. “Let me repeat, there are only two genders.

is being remembered as a “positive, hardworking, and fun” person by former “Extra” colleague Billy Bush.Kryst, 30, who, in addition to pageantry and practicing law also did red carpet hosting, was said to have been a jovial spirit while with the TV show, according to fellow “Extra” host Bush.“She was positive, hardworking, fun and of course beautiful,” Bush, 50, wrote in an emotional Instagram post Sunday after learning of her death.“Always dancing in between takes. This is a complete shock to all.

resignation of Mayor Candace Hollingsworth, and was elected mayor in his own right in May 2o21.Ward is remembered as someone who loved Hyattsville, referring to the city in campaign statements as the “jewel in the crown of Prince George’s County.” His major political accomplishments including co-sponsoring legislation to designate Hyattsville a “sanctuary city,” expanding civic engagement, and working to ensure Hyattsville Middle School remained a construction priority, reports The Washington Post.Ward was mourned by colleagues and lawmakers across the state — many of whom were shocked by his death — who characterized him as a dedicated public servant.Gov. Larry Hogan (R) tweeted that he and First Lady Yumi Hogan were “saddened” to learn of Ward’s passing.“We extend our most heartfelt condolences to the Ward family and the people of Hyattsville as they grieve this tragic loss,” he said.Congressman Anthony Brown (D-Md.), who represents Maryland’s 4th Congressional District, including Hyattsville, also issued his condolences to Ward’s family and city residents in a tweet, calling Ward a “dedicated, thoughtful and fiercely passionate public servant.”“[Ward] was a wonderful partner in serving the needs of all our residents, and he accomplished so much for Hyattsville during his time as a Councilmember and his time as Mayor,” Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks said in a statement.

Their findings, published in the Christmas issue of The British Medical Journal, found that the song’s hopeful lyrics about finally wanting to “be alive” and not wanting to “die anymore” had a massively positive impact on suicide prevention.Study authors used Twitter posts to determine “audience attention” to the song in the 34 days following the song’s release, the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards and the 2018 Grammy Awards as well as the number of National Suicide Prevention Lifeline calls in that