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Rick
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Rick asked in News & EventsCurrent Events · 7 years ago

Was Daisy Coleman's latest "suicide attempt" completely real?

Or was the whole thing just "engineered" to sell media interviews and kick off Melinda Coleman latest donation campaign?

To begin with, it would seem to be monumentally bad judgment for Daisy to attend yet ANOTHER local. This latest party would almost certainly have guests, of friends of guests, from the last party Daisy attended where she tried to get several of them sent to prison. Did Daisy and her mother think that all those people would be inclined to let bygones be bygones and welcome her with open arms? Whether Daisy was justified to do that or not, human nature is such that people hold longstanding animosity about little things like that.

Then the "suicide attempt". The drugs Daisy is reported to have taken seem pretty mild for a serious suicide attempt. Yet Daisy's mother, Melinda, went right to work with the media with the story that Daisy had suffered brain damage as a result of this suicide attempt. She then followed that up by putting the word out on social media that Daisy was dead.

Apparently was only in the hospital for a short time and is now perfectly fine. As soon as she was released, she and her mother started doing more interviews where her mother unveiled her new website for everyone to send donations in to fund her proposed "trauma center" that she wants to run.

Do you think Daisy and her mother engineered this drama and suicide attempt to sell interviews to the media or is this just another tragic episode in this unfortunate teenagers life? Do you think that Daisy's mother may be manipulating the media to take advantage of her daughter's celebrity victim status? Does anyone, at least, believe that Melinda Coleman, using her first interview after her daughters "recovery" from her "suicide attempt" to kick off her "donation drive", was in poor taste? Does anyone believe that this whole episode was set up for media attention? Does anyone believe that all of it is just a string of unfortunate coincidences? What do you think?

Update:

Hey Jim....Going Great. Hope the same with you. This girls mother just seems to be milking this deal to the detriment of the daughter's well being. This latest "suicide attempt" just seems too weak to be serious. For one thing it is reported that Daisy took pills and drank a "HALF" bottle of Bynadryl. If you were really trying to commit suicide, why wouldn't you drink the entire bottle? Was she saving it for the next "suicide attempt"? Then the mother alternating between telling people of Facebook that Daisy was dead and the news media that she had brain damage, is just too commercial. I admit that I am a cynic but this girls mother doesn't seem to be after justice nearly as much as she is attention and money. Maybe what disturbs me the most is how she keeps preaching to the media how her only mission in life now is to look out for Daisy and help her heal but her actions seem to speak differently.

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  • 7 years ago
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    Hello, long time, hows it going. 'Real' in the sense that an initial attempt at suicide can be a precursor to a

    more extreme attempt.

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