Former Miss USA Memoir Reveals Agony Before Suicide
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In May 2019 Kryst was named Miss USA at the age of 28, then the oldest Miss USA ever crowned. On her social media, she was seen and praised as being both beautiful and smart. Both fun-loving and caring. Plus, her crowning was celebrated by the Black community far and wide. While she was smiling and laughing on social media, behind the scenes was a different story.
In a 2021 article for Allure, Kryst wrote briefly about her eight-day hospital stay in 2015. Though she didn’t go into detail, Simpkins says that the hospitalization was following a failed suicide attempt. Before the article came out, Kryst called her mom to reveal the truth of the hospital stay in the magazine. In the end, she decided not to include it.
Ultimately, she succumbed to her depression and sadly took her own life on January 30, 2022.
The news of Kryst’s death in 2022 ignited nuanced conversations about depression and how it presents, prompting discussion on the often invisible struggles people face.
More than two years after her daughter’s death, Simpkins is sharing her story to help others who are silently struggling with mental health issues with the publication...
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