“I think for me it was just a moment where I wanted to be heard,” said the 26-year-old about her mental problems.
Savannah Chrisley opens up about the emotional moment she swallowed an entire bottle of pills and how she avoided addiction.
The Chrisley knows best The alum, 26, appeared on Doug Bopst’s latest episode Adversity Advantage Podcast and shared how being in the public eye and not knowing how to navigate it was a contributing factor to some of the mental health issues she faced, including depression.
“There are things that have brought me to an all-time low that I’ve finally gotten to the point where I’m like well, I can’t do this anymore. It happened once when I was 15, then again when I was 18, and then when I was 22, I finally started going to therapy,” she said. “It wasn’t until I was 22 that I was like, well, I have to go to therapy. I can’t do this alone.”
Chrisley then reflected on her past suicide attempt at the age of 15, recalling the moment she drank an entire bottle of painkillers. Despite the intensive use of pills at that time, Chrisley assured that she never had problems with addiction.
“I’ve never struggled with addiction,” she said on the show. “I was 15 years old then. And you really don’t know at 15 if you’re going to end your life the way it looks. I think for me it was just a moment where I wanted to be heard and I was so afraid to be honest about things that I was struggling with that I was like okay, I just want to be heard.”
“I think that was the biggest thing for me because I’ve never been like that and I think because addiction runs in my family, I’ve always been very conscious of that and not going down that road,” she continued. “I like to think I have a strong mindset of ‘I won’t do it and I won’t do it.’ ”
Savannah Chrisley recalls past suicide attempt that landed her in hospital: It was a ‘cry for help’
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This is not the first time that Chrisley has spoken openly about his mental problems. While she was interviewed for her by mental health and addiction awareness advocate Patrick Custer Unlocked podcast, she opened up about her suicide attempt.
“I didn’t really have a life-or-death experience, but I tried to commit suicide so that was potentially my life-or-death experience,” she said in the May 2023 episode – But for me, it was more of a cry for help.
Chrisley said it happened when she was about 15 years old. And while she wasn’t entirely sure of the timeline, she believes it happened around the time her family started filming their first USA Network reality series.
“It’s so crazy because when you go through that much trauma, I feel like your mind just blocks it out,” she explained. “I also feel like maybe there were some side effects to what I did where it affected my memory, but everything was really a blur.”
“I remember waking up in the hospital and, you know, my parents were there and they were having conversations,” she continued. – Even then, I remember lying to the doctors because I didn’t want to stay in the hospital.
Chrisley also noted that “there’s nothing wrong with me, it was just bad timing.”
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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