Fans worry about Azealia Banks after concerning Instagram stories

Performer says her “soul is tired,” shoots back at media reports.
August 10, 2020 1:15 p.m. EST
August 12, 2020 9:43 a.m. EST
MIAMI, FL - MARCH 23:  Azealia Banks performs on stage at Ultra Music Festival at Bayfront Park on March 23, 2018 in Miami, Florida.  (Photo by Sergi Alexander/Getty Images) MIAMI, FL - MARCH 23: Azealia Banks performs on stage at Ultra Music Festival at Bayfront Park on March 23, 2018 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Sergi Alexander/Getty Images)
Azealia Banks fans were quite concerned over the weekend after the 29-year-old performer shared a series of cryptic posts on her Instagram stories in which she alluded to potential suicide.“Yea I think I’m done here. This pandemic, extreme lack of social interaction, no intimacy, combined with constant public ridicule is making life harder than its worth,” she shared according to E! News. “I think I will end my tenure here on earth soon.” In a second post Banks explained, "I'm not begging for attention or asking for sympathy/empathy. I'm just ready to go. Peacefully of course. I will document my last times and release a film for you all to finally understand me, from my perspective... My soul is tired. I'm ready to go." She then wrapped that series of messages with a third post that asked her followers not to “bombard” her with messages. “I am not in pain. I am at peace,” she wrote.[video_embed id='1887193']RELATED: Senator Denise Batters hopes to raise awareness about suicide[/video_embed]The “Broke With Expensive Taste” singer then uploaded an audio file to explain that a friend had stopped by and done a welfare check on her, before adding, “My decision is made. I'm just gonna really try to push through these next couple of months… I'm gonna, like, start looking for voluntary euthanasia options. Because, you know, I don't have any more defense. I don't.”Fans immediately sent their love and well-wishes to the performer. In the August 9 posts she added that she needs time and space to figure things out, saying that she really needs to “lighten” her load so that she can “make sense of things.” After Banks’ clips went viral she shared a series of posts in which she revealed she is scared that Apple Music’s global creative director Larry Jackson’s brother is stalking her, and calling out those she believes to have fake concern. She also accused the media of only paying attention to her when she was down.
 
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In another post she added, “When I’m down, that’s because I’m down. I’m down. Support me when I’m up. You want to have all these conversations about Black women’s mental health? Support me when I’m up… when I’m feeling good… when I’ve got a smile on my face,” she said. “Don’t just give me support when I’m crying and down in the dumps and y’all ridiculed me and made fun of me all year and made me the laughing stock and all that shit. Don’t support me when I’m down ‘cause that’s where y’all put me.”[video_embed id='2011133']BEFORE YOU GO: How to navigate the emotional challenges of a reopening world[/video_embed]

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