Fans are showering “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Kandi Burruss with love today after the singer-songwriter opened up about dealing with her struggles with mental health after revealing that she had suicidal ideations in middle school.
The heartbreaking admission occurred during Kandi’s recent appearance on “The Real” with co-hosts Garcelle Beauvais, Adrienne Houghton, Loni Love and Jeannie Mai Jenkins, who’s currently on maternity leave.
Houghton posed the question to the group, asking them how have they’ve overcome feeling like the whole world was against them, to which Kandi Burruss admitted that she had found herself in a similar predicament, as she described.
“It seems like people have really gotten to a place where it just feels like everything is against you, and a lot of people have been giving up,” the 45-year-old actress said as she reflected on her observation over the last year. “For me, I was at that moment at a young age. I know that’s going to sound crazy, but when I was in middle school, I thought about taking my own life.”
The former Xscape member shared that she didn’t like talking about it “because it’s very emotional for me” before explaining, “I’m only saying this because I know many people are dealing with that right now. I was feeling like that. I really wanted to go through the motions.”
Kandi said her mother Joyce Jones had a gun at the time, “and you know you’re a kid you go through their stuff, so I knew where she kept it, and I had plans to use it,” she continued. “But, for whatever reason God made her put it somewhere else because it wasn’t where she normally kept it.”
Elsewhere, Kandi Burruss noted, “If I had done that, at that time, Think of all the wonderful things I would’ve missed out on. So I always like to tell people… it can’t rain forever. The sun is going to shine again, and sometimes it’s going to shine so bright on you, and when it does — things that you would never expect.”
Kandi Burruss-Tucker, known professionally by her mononym Kandi, is an American producer, television personality, singer, businesswoman and actress. She first gained notice in 1992 as a member of the female vocal group Xscape.
