NPR on L'Wren Scott's shocking suicide

[devifemme]

There was a strikingly intimate piece done by AP on NPR on the suicide today of L'Wren Scott, "...who left her small-town Utah home as a teenager to become a model in Paris, then a top Hollywood stylist and finally a high-end fashion designer best known as the longtime girlfriend of Mick Jagger. [She] has died in what was being investigated as an

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[ggary]

I understand that she was supposed to be about $6,000,000 in debt. It's been claimed that she couldn't afford to put on a fashion show or even pay her staff. She had been acting strangely for the last week, according to a friend. She consistently turned down financial help from Jagger, but was unable to sort out her free-falling finances. God, what a bloody waste! At worst she would have ended up going bankrupt, which loads of business people do every year. Things would have sorted themselves out in the end. But now she has put an end to everything, and left all those that loved her devastated. The whole thing is filled with 'If onlies'-if only she had reached out for help, if only someone had noticed, if, if , if. I have a relative who tried to kill themself in the same way. They failed, thank God, and they are now happy and fulfilled in life. But it does show how easily life can spiral out of control. People are not told enough about what to do when they have these impulses. It is never the answer, and people need to talk about it

[devifemme]

Yeah, hard to imagine a financial collapse triggering such a huge, irrevocable decision. Your info on her not wanting help from Jagger is intriguing: obviously, it would have been trivial for him -- so there must be more to that side of things. Jagger being so involved in that Chelsea show -- sure speaks to his being engaged in her world. So, what WOULD drive someone like her to give it all up? I wonder about her mental state -- rather than any real-world pressures.

I don't discount depression, having suffered it myself -- and VERY vaguely considering ending things at a low point in 2002, but Joanne rallied to me, literally flying to the rescue and getting me to a shrink. (I've been devoutly committed to meds ever since.)