In support of World Mental Health Day on October 10, television personality Sharon Osbourne has opened up about her suicide attempt in 2016.
“Four years ago, I tried to take my life and it wasn’t for attention,” she said on “The Talk.” “I just couldn’t bare it.”
“I remember that time and I remember us wanting to give you your space and your privacy,” Osbourne’s cohost Sheryl Underwood chimed in to say.
Osbourne added that she went to get help at a facility, where she met two girls who were there receiving treatment for drug and alcohol issues. She said that meeting these two girls “shocked” her into fighting for her life.
“They weren’t even related,” Osbourne explained. “Young girls, and both of them, their mothers had committed suicide. And it messed them up so bad, that they couldn’t cope with their lives and that shocked me into, ‘C’mon, am I going to do this to my family, to my babies? No way.’ And that shocked me — it was like an electric shock and it was like, get it together.”
Osbourne has long been open about her mental health issues, saying that she constantly struggles with them.
“Talking about my depression and it’s like, you know, saying ‘Oh, the first time I tried to kill myself was OK. The second, alright. The third time, oi!” she said last April on “The Talk” while discussing depression. “But it’s like, I’m still here. I still do what I do. And you struggle. But it’s like… I wished everybody could think flowers and daisies and princesses. But you can’t… And we lived happily ever after. No we don’t!”
Entertainment Tonight [1] reported that Osbourne made headlines in May of 2015 when she took an emergency month-long hiatus from “The Talk.” At the time, her rep said that she had “collapsed from mental and physical fatigue” following a grueling schedule in New York and Toronto. The next year, however, Osbourne admitted that she had been severely depressed and suffered a breakdown.
“It’s very weird when you suffer from a bad depression… I had a complete and utter breakdown,” she shared. “I woke up in Cedars-Sinai hospital. For three days, I couldn’t talk … knew nothing. I was taking on too much… my brain totally fused. I just couldn’t cope with anything.”
“My family put me into a facility and in this facility they diagnose you, and you do a lot of group therapy,” Osbourne added. “The group therapy was the best, because there were other people suffering from the same thing. I didn’t want to talk, didn’t want to eat, didn’t want to speak to anyone.”
This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com [2] and is used by permission.
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