Tim Gunn Talks About Suicide Attempt, Urges Gay Youth to Reach Out

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Hopefully this helps someone somewhere. E! Online reports that “The Project Runway star released a video message earlier today to gay youth in which he reveals he tried to take his own life when he was a teenager by swallowing 100 pills …

“As a 17-year-old youth who was in quite a bit of despair, I attempted to kill myself,” Gunn says in the spot for the It Gets Better Project. “I’m happy to say today that attempt was unsuccessful. But at the time it was all that I could contemplate.”

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