Tyler Perry, the well-known American actor, and director has discussed a little bit on su!cide.
In response to the suicide of Stephen “tWitch” Boss, the renowned film director revealed that he had also attempted su!cide.
tWitch, who happens to be the former DJ for the Ellen DeGeneres Show and a contestant on “So You Think You Can Dance,” passed away on December 14 at the age of 40, according to his wife Allison Holker Boss, 34.
On Thursday, Tyler used a plain caption attached to an Instagram video that read, “Life…, I like the rest of the world am shocked by the death of Stephen Boss, tWitch.”
‘The World Lost a Bright Light’
“I’ve only met him a couple of times, Perry said. “He was always full of life, it seemed like, such a light,” Perry added.
The tragedy, he said, had compelled him to spread a message, “to any of you who are going through hard times, struggling.”
Perry continued by reflecting back on the “dark” events he had gone through in his own life “With that said, I just want to take you back to a time in my life when I tried to commit suicide, a couple of times, because it was so dark I didn’t think it would get any better.
I had endured so much pain, so much abuse, sexual abuse, it was all so hard to just move through that I thought the only way to make this better was to end my life.”
“Had any of those attempts happened, I would’ve missed the best part of my life,” Perry said.
He continued by giving advice to those who are “going through some things” and urged them to seek assistance.
“I know it may seem like there’s no hope, but please reach out to someone … call, ask for help if you are dealing with anything that is emotionally taking you to a place where you think you want to end your life.”
Moreover, he went on to iterate that, “What I realize now, looking back on all those dark times is, sometimes the pain is a buy-in. I know that’s hard to understand. Not all the time — sometimes — the pain is a buy-in.
That’s the way I had to learn to look at it to get through it. What I mean by that is, all that pain, all that hell, all that struggle, if I had given up, if I had stopped, I wouldn’t have seen the better part of my life. I was buying into something, I was paying for something.”
“I know that doesn’t make sense to a lot of people but for me, it was the way I was able to rationalize it, to be able to move through the pain, knowing that if I could just get through this moment, there’s got to be something better,” he added.
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