Alan Ritchson Details Suicide Attempt During Dark Period

Alan Ritchson is opening up about his darkish previous, admitting that he as soon as tried suicide after being repeatedly sexually assaulted — however his sons saved him.

The “Reacher” actor not too long ago sat down with the Hollywood Reporter and gave a wide-ranging interview that included his stunning confession that he tried to hold himself.

Ritchson informed the outlet that, in 2019, he went to the attic of his California dwelling and climbed as much as the highest of a loft, tossing one finish of an extension twine over the rafters and securing it.

Then Ritchson mentioned he tied the opposite finish of the twine round his neck and “let go,” making an attempt to hold himself.

However, Ritchson abruptly had what he referred to as a second of “divine intervention,” seeing a imaginative and prescient of his 3 adolescent sons as adults of their mid-30s.

Within the imaginative and prescient, his sons calmly requested Ritchson to not kill himself, encouraging him to remain alive so he may very well be with them.

That was all it took for Ritchson to vary his thoughts and pull himself up earlier than he fell unconscious – due to his athletic skills.

Ritchson mentioned he had been going by means of a horrible interval, enduring years of sexual abuse whereas was a mannequin. He mentioned there have been few redeeming qualities concerning the modeling trade, calling it “legalized sex trafficking” as a result of it is unregulated.

He additionally mentioned it is broadly identified that you’ll be handed off to a photog for intercourse trafficking when you’re employed for a job.

Ritchson summed up his expertise this manner, “The variety of instances and conditions the place I used to be put in horrific environments the place sexual abuse was the aim and the paycheck that you just had been determined for as a way to survive was the carrot, I can’t rely on two arms. It was very often.”

The final straw got here when he was despatched to a modeling gig at a lodge and met with a well-known lensman who promised him a profitable clothes line marketing campaign in change for posing in a nude shoot.

Ritchson mentioned the photog sexually assaulted him, prompting him to drive to his LA modeling company and let his rep have it, screaming, “F— you for sending me there. You knew what was going to happen, and you did it anyway.”

The rep flashed a coy smile, telling Ritchson to relax. However, Ritchson ended their relationship and by no means took one other modeling job once more. He then moved into appearing, which additionally had a severe impression on his psychological well being. Onetime, a feminine colleague threatened to falsely accuse him of sexual assault.

Proper after the suicide try, Ritchson mentioned a health care provider identified him with bipolar dysfunction.

Scary stuff.