Mental Health Experts Praise Meghan Markle for Revealing Suicidal Thoughts
On 3/9/21 at 11:39 AM EST
Mental health campaigners have praised Meghan Markle for revealing she suffered suicidal thoughts after the British tabloid press targeted her.
Markle told Oprah Winfrey in a CBS interview that aired on Sunday that she didn t want to be alive anymore when she was a member of the royal family, and confirmed that she had in the past considered ending her life.
Her comments drew fresh attention to the issue of suicide, which is a leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for around one death every 11 minutes in 2019 according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the U.K., where Markle was based at her time of crisis, official figures show almost 6,000 people died by suicide in 2019 alone.