Celebrities who hanged themselves

Suffering from public speaking anxiety and feeling bad about it? Don’t fret, rather count your blessings. The following surely don’t have any of that, yet didn’t have a happy ending.

The following is a partial list of the rich and famous who committed suicide through lethal suspension by a ligature.

Alexander McQueen, CBE, 40, four-time British Designer of the Year. On 11th February 2010, he was found dead, hanging in his wardrobe.

Jonathan Brandis, 27, who was a teen idol in the early 1990s when he played scientific prodigy Lucas Wolenczak in the TV series seaQuest DSV. Hanged himself November 2003. Friends were quoted to have mentioned that he was “lonely and depressed” about his faltering career.

Ian Curtis (1956 � 1980), lead singer, songwriter and lyricist of Joy Division, whose song “Love Will Tear Us Apart” is considered by some as the best single of all time, and is listed in Rolling Stone magazine’s top 500 songs of all time. On 18th May 1980 he hanged himself in his kitchen.

Justin Fashanu (1961 � 1998), professional English footballer who in 1981 became Great Britain’s first GBP1 million black soccer player when he moved to Nottingham Forest. In 1990 he became the first, and still the only prominent footballer to announce that he was gay. In the early hours of 3rd May 1998, he was found hanged in a lock-up garage he’d broken into.

Michael Hutchence (1960 � 1997), lead singer of rock band INXS, who’ve sold more than 30 million records worldwide. On 22nd November 1997, while INXS was on a world tour, he was found dead in his hotel room, in “a kneeling position facing the door” and “had used his black leather belt to tie a knot on the automatic door closure at the top of the door, and had strained his head forward into the loop so hard that the buckle had broken.”

Paul Hester (1959 � 2005), drummer of rock band Crowded House, which produced such classics as “Don’t Dream It’s Over,” “Fall at Your Feet” and “Weather with You”. On 26th March 2005 he committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree in a park near his house.

Chris Benoit (1967 � 2007), Canadian professional wrestler for WCW and later WWE, two-time world heavyweight champion, one of the most popular and talented technical wrestlers ever. On the weekend of his death, he was booked to win his 3rd world heavyweight championship. After killing his wife and son, he created a noose from the end of the cord of a weight machine to hang himself.

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