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You probably think that being a celebrity is something that all of us should aspire to be and that their life is just filled with glitter, fun, money and happiness. However, with being a celebrity negative things like unhappiness, lack of privacy and drug problems can also ensue. There have been wide number of multiple celebrity committed suicides through past few decades, some of them were very young A-list celebrities and some of those just shocked us from people that we genuinely thought that were happy. Some were however more horrific than other, and most of them were just sad stories. Here are top 10 of the most shocking and most known celebrity suicides:
10. Freddie Prinze
Freddie Prinze
Freddie Prinze was an American actor who killed himself in 1977 by shooting himself in the head by gun. He was certainly one of the most beloved American TV actors in 1970s so this suicide obviously shook up whole American public. He was a star of a highly popular sitcom called Chico and the Man and acted in various Hollywood movies in 1970.
It is unbelievable to think of that he was only 23 year old at the time that was dealing with high pressure of being a celebrity and was known to spend last year of his life dealing with severe depression that was main cause of his suicide attempt. He was also a father of the currently famous actor called also Freddie Prinze, Jr. which is nowadays a famous Hollywood blockbuster actor that acted in Scooby Doo, She’s All That, I Know What You Did Last Summer and had a famous cameo at hit TV sitcom Friends.
9. Lee Thompson Young
Lee Thompson Young was a famous Disney star and actor who surprisingly committed suicide in August, 2013 for unknown reasons without even leaving a suicide note. At the time of his death he was 29 years old and was mostly known for his variousTV roles on Disney Channel and by being an actor in Rizzoli and Isles. He died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds and was found by landlord in his apartment in North Hollywood. What makes his death even more mysterious is that apparently not even his family or friends were aware of any of his life issues that he was going through at this period of his life.
8. Chris Benoit
He was a famous WWE wrestler that ultimately committed suicide after his strangled his wife to death and suffocated his 8 year old son, by hanging himself to death. It is still not fully known on why he did those horrible things, but he suffered for many years from brain damage, which was said to be the primary cause for his double murder and suicide. Chris Benoit was aged 40 at the time of his death that happened in 2007 and is still regarded as one of the best and most popular Canadian WWE wrestlers of all time. Since his debut in 1985 he amassed many great wins in his WWE career history.
7. Jiah Khan
She was a famously Bollywood actress which took her life by hanging herself. Jiah Khan too her life in June, 2013 at age of only 25 which was an unbelievable tragedy for Bollywood fans since she was one of the most famous and most talented actress that starred in various successful movies, such as Housefull, which is a 5th highest grossing Bollywood movie of all time. She left a suicide note which mostly indicated that she made suicide because of serious heartbreak that was addressed fully to Suraj Pancholi.
6. Don Cornelius
Don Cornelius was a host and creator of Soul Train, and after he was devastated by his health decline and depression he chose to put himself out of the pain and ended his life self-inflicted gunshot to his head. After he had tough life after suffering from various seizures because of aneurysm for over 15 years, he found it incredibly difficult to properly treat symptoms with medication so he decided to end his life being aged 75 in late 2012.
5. Alexandar McQueen
Another one of the most recent shocking celebrity commited suicides has to be the one of Alexandar Mcqueen, one of the most famous and richest British fashion designers in the world. Just a week after his mother has passed away, he suddenly lost his will for life and decided to take his own life. After many years of battling with severe depression and backstabbing friends that are in fashion industry he pushed himself to suicide. He committed suicide by consuming a cocktail of prescription drugs and coke and slit his wrists afterwards. He was found dead by his maid.
4. Jonathan Brandis
Jonathan Brandis, a successful kid movie star and teenage heartthrob took his life in 2003 after being only 27 years of age. He is mostly famous for his roles in One Life to Live, Wonder Years, Full House and La Law. He also starred in very successful children movie called The Never Ending Story 2: Next Chapter. In 2003 he hanged himself to the death in his own apartment in Hollywood.
3. Rob Pilatus
He was a famously dancer, singer and model who was mostly known as a member of successful 1990s pop duo Milli Vanilli. Since afterwards it was found out that both of the singers weren’t actually singing on their albums, but they were only performing live and in their music videos their career suddenly stopped and took a wrong direction. Since afterwards he suffered from depression he took his life in 1998 at age of only 33, from a prescription pill and alcohol overdose.
2. Tony Scott
Tony Scott, one of the most famous blockbuster Hollywood directors of all time whose movies grossed over billion in box office has committed surprising and devastating suicide in 2012 by jumping off the bridge. He directed various blockbuster movies that are a great part of recent Hollywood industry, such as Top Gun, Deja Vu, Man on Fire, Crimson Tide and many more. He was also a brother of even more famous director Ridley Scott.
1. Kurt Cobain
And, on the number 1 spot of the most shocking celebrity commited suicides is of course Kurt Cobain, a frontman of a famous grunge rock band called Nirvana. After band’s unbelievable mainstream success after hits like Smells Like Teen Spirit he committed suicide on April 8, 1994 in his apartment in Seattle with a self-inflicted shotgun wound in the head. He was just 27 when he died and since then his death has become a serious topic of public debate and fascination.
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