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Lia Marie Johnson is acceptable to archer her story.
The 26-year-old, who roseate to fame at age 14 for appearing successful the Fine Brothers' "Kids React" YouTube series, shared a video of herself recounting her erstwhile years struggling with addiction, abusive relationships and her suicide attempt.
"When I was 17 I moved to Los Angeles unsocial to prosecute my career," she said successful the Jan. 4 clip. "I worked hard and focused connected my passions, but I was surviving successful a full different satellite erstwhile the prima went down," the vocalist shared successful her video. "I was drinking, utilizing drugs, and partying astir each night. My manner became much unsafe arsenic the years passed."
Lia noted, "Life isn't ever easy, I conscionable ne'er knew it could beryllium truthful hard."
The online property went connected to recount an abusive relationship she entered at a young age.
"I was successful a narration with idiosyncratic who I thought I loved, but adjacent that changed erstwhile helium enactment his hands connected maine and strangled me," Lia recalled. "I was truthful young I didn't cognize what to bash oregon however to talk up. So I stayed quiet. I don't deliberation I ever told anyone."
The narration caused her to acquisition "pain and loneliness successful my beingness that not adjacent drugs could fix."
When she was 18, she had her first termination attempt, and then decided to move back to her location of San Diego. But, after months of attending group therapy, she moved backmost to Los Angeles erstwhile she booked a series. Lia recalled, "It didn't instrumentality agelong to autumn backmost into my brainsick manner and unsafe past."
When she was 20, she was progressive successful a car mishap that she said "should person changed the mode I was surviving but I inactive didn't get the message."
Yet, Lia said that "immediately" aft the incident, everything changed drastically. "I was ending up successful hospitals owed to my mediocre intelligence health," she said. "The worst portion was spending clip successful psychiatric wards owed to falling into drug-included psychosis."
Lia explained of the condition, "Your world warps, you tin hallucinate for days, weeks and sometimes for the remainder of your life. You tin perceive voices and they tin archer you to bash things to yourself oregon others that you don't privation to do."
Her beingness took a crook successful January 2020, erstwhile she met idiosyncratic she had a "complicated narration with" and was "using heavy with." That July, helium died by suicide.
Though "losing him was 1 of the hardest realities I've ever had to face," she said that aft his death, a person of hers stepped successful and helped her go sober.
She present credits her person for being the assistance she needed connected her journey.
"I tried astir each azygous cause you tin deliberation of and mislaid everything I had," Lia said. "I've been to jail, psych wards and rehabs. I've slept connected the thoroughfare and present I tin archer you that the 1 happening that saved maine was love. Real love. That's wherefore I'm here. Because emotion is truthful powerful. Love is the crushed I'm alive."
Nowadays, Lia lives successful England with her spouse Charlie and conscionable marked 10 months of sobriety.
If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize needs help, telephone 988 to scope the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You tin besides telephone the network, antecedently known arsenic the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, astatine 800-273-8255, substance HOME to 741741 oregon sojourn SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for further resources.
