Success is not proportional to mental stability, rather they follow different paths. All interpreters move under this maxim, winding down the path of dangerous fame, some without knowing it, and surprise the world when they reveal the moment in which one collapsed when the other was at the top. This is how he told it, more explicitly, Alan Ritchson.
The 41-year-old actor, who made the leap with Smallville and now he is going through one of the sweetest moments of his career with the triumph of Reacher on Prime Video, has confessed in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter what He was very close to committing suicide. The reason: a sexual assault which, in addition, led him to make the decision to leave the world of modeling.
A vision of his children saved him from himself
It was five years ago. I hanged myself. Everything happened very quickly and I was hung, the interpreter is sincere. He was in the attic of his house in Encino, California. He had used a green colored cable. His feet did not touch the ground. He started to faint. Then, a vision of his children Calem, Edan and Amory, 11, 10 and 8 years old, respectively, occupied his retina.
It wasn’t just any image. His children, fruits of his long and still lasting marriage to Catherine Ritchson, were around 30 years old. They were older, adults. They asked me very calmly not to do it, they told me that they wanted me to be there, alive and part of their lives., remember about that. On the verge of losing consciousness, he decided to save himself.
The Alan who fell to the ground after this episode was different: I sought professional help and he set himself the goal of recognizing the origin of the dark clouds that had led him to hang himself from a beam in his attic. That led to the diagnosis of his Bipolar disorder and in the conclusion that this had occurred after suffer sexual assault for years.
First it was in the modeling industry, which I abandoned, and then as an actor. They broke me, he says, although he didn’t realize at the time how cracked his mental crystals could be. His work in that profession only generates I repulsed to everything that surrounds the working world of fashion: There are very few redeeming qualities about working in that industry. Let’s be honest, It’s like legalized sex trafficking: it’s unregulated and a well-known secret. that if they hire you for a job they are basically passing you on to a photographer to traffic with you.
The two drops that broke the camel’s back
Although, he says, he can’t count on two hands the number of times he was placed in horrible environments where sexual abuse was the goal, there was one that ended up changing everything. I was hired for a photo shoot with a very famous photographer. They sent me to their hotel room to do nudes under the promise that, if I did, he would get me a very lucrative campaign for a magazine and a clothing brand. And I was sexually assaulted by this guy.Explain.
Already on television, when the ghost of this evil seemed to fade, the second straw arrived. She was a woman, her partner for a film project: He gave me an ultimatum to go to his room and told me that if I didn’t go, he would not only destroy this business but am calling TMZ to claim that he had sexually assaulted her.
I was very depressed and didn’t know how to deal with it., confesses about that. Shortly afterward the suicide attempt took place.
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