Fans worry about Azealia Banks after concerning Instagram stories

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.”

I pray for Azealia Banks. She’s never been given the same grace and that can become exhausting for anyone.

— ᴅᴏʟʟᴀʀ (@callmedollar) August 9, 2020

Just saw why Azealia Banks is trending and I'm praying someone close to her gets her some help before she harms herself. Black women are afforded little to no grace when dealing with mental health challenges and she certainly deserves our support. ???? https://t.co/zOjKPH4qZJ

— BlackWomenViews Media (@blackwomenviews) August 9, 2020

Y’all don’t wanna give ppl their flowers till u by their gravesite & that’s the problem. Y’all ignore Azealia Banks every day. Talk about how problematic she is. Now the aftermath of years of being treated poorly and unappreciated is showing its head and y’all wanna fake care. ??

— SEKOYA (@yungbabytate) August 9, 2020

I try not to be bitter about the Azealia Banks thing but people really threw her away but will give their precious whites, their aspirational light skins, and the awful abusive men in the industry they worship chance after chance and make excuses for them but this lady gets dust

— Rashida Renée (@evilrashida) August 9, 2020

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]