Cheslie Kryst memoir reveals new details about struggles before suicide

Photo: Getty Images An upcoming memoir details former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst’s struggles before her tragic death in January 2022. Kryst, who had earned a law degree and MBA, the title of Miss USA, and a correspondent role for Extra by the age of 30, writes in her upcoming memoir that she carried an “unshakable feeling that I did not belong” and battled a “constant inner voice repeating ‘never enough” before dying by suicide on January 30, 2022. Before her death, Kryst left her mom, April Simpkins, a note asking her to help get the memoir she had been writing published. Simpkins fulfilled her daughter’s final request as the book, “By the Time You Read This: The Space Between Cheslie’s Smile and Mental Illness,” is set to be released on Tuesday (April 23). Kryst detailed how the backlash she received after being crowned Miss USA in 2019 affected her “long-standing insecurities” and contributed to her feelings of “imposter syndrome.” “Just hours after my win, I had to delete vomit-face emojis that a few accounts had plastered all over the comments on my Instagram page. More than one person messaged me telling me to kill myself,” Kryst wrote, according to book...