By Monica Miller | December 25, 2020
Taraji continued: “Then, I started having thoughts about ending it.” She explained that she had recently purchased a gun and said: “‘I could go in there right now, and just end it all.'” She even tried thinking of her son, but thought: “‘He’s grown, he’ll get over it.'”
“I felt myself withdrawing. People were calling me, I wasn’t responding. I just didn’t care. Finally, I’m talking to one of my girlfriends and I knew, I was smart enough to say, ‘I have to say it,'” Henson said, adding that “part of” her felt “ashamed. So one day I just blurted it out, to my girlfriend. She called me in the morning and I was like, ‘You know I thought about killing myself last night. ‘Oh my god, I feel so much better. I’m not gonna do it now.’
