Her previous suicide attempt, according to Savannah Chrisley, was “a cry for help.”
The former “Chrisley Knows Best” star, 25, revealed to mental health and addiction awareness advocate Patrick Custer in the latest episode of her “Unlocked” podcast that she attempted suicide when she was 15 or 16 years old, just before her family started filming their reality programme.
Savannah Chrisley My attempt at suicide cry for help
She claimed, “I didn’t really have a life-or-death experience, but I did try to take my own life, so that could have been my life-or-death experience.” But it seemed more of a scream for aid to me.
Chrisley doesn’t recall many specifics of the event because it was so terrible.
It’s odd because, she continued, “I feel like your mind just blocks it out when you go through so much trauma.”
“I also feel like, too, too, there were maybe some side effects to what I had done to where it affected my memory, but it all really was a blur,” she said, having earlier disclosed that she “took a bottle of pills” because she “suffered from really bad depression.”
Nevertheless, she “remembers waking up in the hospital, [her] parents being there, and [there were] discussions being had.”
She recalled “lying to the doctors because [she] didn’t want to be held at the hospital.”
Savannah Chrisley acknowledged that it was “hard coming off of that straight into reality television in front of the world and having even more thrown at you,” and she explained her strategy as “masking” the “hiccup” and telling herself she is “fine.”
However, she said that following her hospitalisation, her parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, “stepped up” and supported her. Todd and Julie Chrisley are currently serving a combined 19 years in jail for bank fraud and tax evasion.
“My dad spent countless hours with me every single day, just trying to get me to talk, telling me his life stories, his trauma,” she recalled. “Trying to let me know that I’m not this flawless person you’ve always thought I am, like, ‘Hey, I’m not. I too have had hardships in my life. Trauma struck me. I want you to be at ease.'”