Drew Carey reflects on the low points of his mental health journey.
The price is right host opened up about his childhood during this week’s guest appearance Who is talking to Chris Wallace?. During a chat with host Chris Wallace, Carey, 65, reflected on his mental health issues as a teenager, including how scary things had become for him.
“Two suicide attempts,” he said of the incidents that occurred when he was 18 and in his early 20s. “I think the suicide attempts were cries for help. I was so mad that everyone was having a good time and I was just tired of my life and who’s going to miss me? I’ve got a lot more. Like, who’s going to miss me kind of thing.”
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The comedian continued, “I think when, yeah, like, a lot of times I think to myself. Like, if I die, just my body will be cremated. There’s no funeral and anything to do with, like, all my memories and stuff. You can just light it up and give it away. Like, who cares?”
Drew Carey on ‘The Price Is Right’. Valerie Macon/Getty Images
Carey has spoken about his mental health issues before, even saying once Access to Hollywood he was “depressed for a long time”. But things eventually turned positive for the comedian.
“I learned how to believe in myself. I learned how to set goals, you know, self-help books, man. I just read every one I could get my hands on and I still do. I still read that stuff all the time,” he continued to tell the outlet 2007, trans Today. “I always come out bigger, better, stronger and happier.”
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Reporting on how things stand today, Carey told Wallace, 76, that he doesn’t believe success has “corrupted” him.
“I’d like to say no. But it changed a lot of things for me,” he said. “Like, don’t take things personally. I took everything personally, if somebody wrote a bad review, I’d be like, what the hell? I’m asking for my money? You know, so yeah, that’s — it’s all gone.”
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If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Line by dialing 988, texting “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Line at 741741 or going to 988lifeline.org.
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