The celebrities listed below have all had a measure of success in their chosen fields, with some going on to reach superstar status.
All of that, however, wouldn’t have happened had their attempts at offing themselves before hitting the big time were as successful as the ones that took the lives of many other celebs. Talk about second chances.
Guess they’re just luckier than those other celebrities who died young.
1. Brigitte Bardot
Bardot has tried to end her life several times, the first of which was when she was a teenager refused permission by her parents to marry film director Roger Vadim until she was 18. She eventually married and divorced Vadim, who launched Bardot to international renown in his 1956 film And God Created Woman.
2. Peter Fonda
Fonda was 10 years old when he shot himself in the stomach with a .22 pistol in 1950, just a few months after the suicide of his own mother.
3. Ozzy Osbourne
The “Godfather of Heavy Metal” has admitted to several suicide attempts, even when he was a teenager.
4. Tuesday Weld
This Emmy- and Oscar-nominated actress had a nervous breakdown at age nine, was an alcoholic by age 12, and tried to kill herself at around the same time by taking aspirin and sleeping pills and chasing them down with a bottle of gin.
5. Billy Joel
Depression brought about by the failure of his band Attila drove Joel, then in his early twenties, to drink furniture polish, which he said “looked tastier than bleach”.He of course survived, and went on to become the sixth best-selling recording artist in the United States according to the RIAA.
6. Drew Carey
Long before The Drew Carey Show, Whose Line Is It Anyway? and The Price is Right made him a household name, Carey made two suicide attempts as a teenager, and both attempts are blamed on a very rough childhood where he was, by his admission, sexually molested.
7. Jennifer O’Neill
O’Neill was 14 when she tried to kill herself. There was another incident in 1982 when she shot herself in the abdomen with a gun belonging to her then husband, but she claims it was accidental.
8. Greg Louganis
A serious knee injury at the age of 12 that dashed his hopes of becoming an Olympic gymnast drove Louganis to try to commit suicide three times. He survived and went on to become the greatest Olympic diver the world has ever seen.
9. Ginger Lynn
The top porn star of the 1980s tried to kill herself at the age of 12 by taking a bunch of various medicines. She claimed she did it to get away from the constant abuse inflicted by her mother.
10. Eminem
In 1996, Eminem took more than a dozen Tylenol after being dumped by on-again, off-again wife Kim Mathers. Three years later, his first major studio album, The Slim Shady LP, became one of the biggest-selling albums of 1999.
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