Drew Barrymore and Madison Beer Open Up About Attempting Suicide During Emotional Interview
etonline.comDrew Barrymore and Madison Beer recently found themselves connecting with one another over some of the darkest times in their lives.The 24-year-old singer appeared on Wednesday's and opened up to the talk show host about her struggles with suicidal thoughts and how she found light at the end of the tunnel.
The discussion led Barrymore to share her own journey with the topic. «Everybody struggles, so I related on levels that are difficult to talk about and I want to thank you because you’re discussing stuff right now that I want to make you feel safe about because I've been there,» Barrymore said. «So when you were struggling there was attempts at escaping life, tell me about that.»Beer discussed how things caught up with her and how she was «unsuccessful» in taking her own life. «I got to the point that things caught up with me that I had never acknowledged, I never wanted to face.
I feel like I was sort of putting on this façade and living this role I had been assigned for so long and it all caught up to me one day and then one day turned into weeks and months and, honestly, I feel like it was at least year that I was always in this sort of, like, suicidal ideation mindset,» Beer said. «It felt very normal to me to think about that at the end of every day, and then that wasn’t until I ended up actually making an attempt.
It was, thankfully, obviously unsuccessful,» she continued. «I don’t know, it just all became too much and that’s when I also decided, 'OK, clearly there’s something more for me to live for.' I wasn't successful and I want to do something with that.
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