Hollywood Stars Help Prevent Suicide Via Twitter
March 21, 2010
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Hollywood actresses Demi Moore, left, and Nia Vardalos, star of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” helped police thwart a possible suicide attempt on Friday after being alerted to it through Twitter.
Moore and Vardalos were instrumental in rushing police to the home of an 18-year-old Florida man who had written a message on Twitter saying he had “messed up my life bad” and was “thinking about killing myself.” The suicidal man wrote a message addressed to Moore’s Twitter account saying he was “about to go hang myself from a tree outside my house and end my life.”
Moore wrote the man back asking if he needed help. He responded “yes.” Vardalos, who saw the exchange on Moore’s public Twitter feed, called a suicide prevention center in Los Angeles, which contacted the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office. The police officer who arrived at the man’s home, around 2:30 a.m. said in his report that he found him “sitting at his computer desk crying.”
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