Warner Music Group artist CHIKA has expressed numerous times how much she struggles with her mental health. But she took things to a whole other level on Saturday (March 26) when she admitted she was moments away from throwing herself off the top of The InterContinental Hotel in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Although the Grammy Award-nominated rapper didn’t go through with it, she said she’s simply looking for a different method in which to end her life. In a lengthy statement posted to her Instagram Stories, she suggested she’s ending her life any moment.
“i went to the top of the intercontinental, but could not jump. not because i don’t want to, but because the metal stairs were scary. that’s the thing about having a fucked up brain. no matter how much pain you’re in, there will always be something holding you back. it’s draining & sad. it looks like crying wolf, but it’s not. it’s just difficult to find the right way. the quickest way. the painless way. i am tired of myself too.”
She continued, “i don’t need anyone feeling bad or worried bc i failed the last time i tried. save your emotions for when I succeed.” After describing herself as a “cautionary tale of sorts [when no one listens],” she called her potential suicide as “eternal freedom.” She ended the post with, “No more typing. i’m going to finish my drink and find a way that works. thanks for the ride, i hated it.”
CHIKA shared a handful of equally concerning posts to her Instagram Stories, one on Friday night (March 25) that read, “I’m not making it home.” She followed up with, “Find my body in St. Paul IGAF” and “Madison, actually. Hope ur happy.”
Last April, CHIKA again worried her fans when she deactivated her Twitter account following a string of alarming tweets. The Alabama-bred singer/MC confessed she’d been flirting with the idea of retiring from music and was met with a barrage of insults instead. Subsequently, CHIKA suggested she and her haters make a “suicide pact” to put a stop to their collective suffering.
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But a few days later, she returned to Twitter and appeared to be in a better place. She also thanked Cardi B who evidently came to her aid.
“I am alive. I am okay,” she said at the time. “Thank you to everyone who has reached out to check in. It’s been a very intense week. I’m not retiring. After what I’ve endured in the past few days, I’m not ever allowing anything to stop me or almost take me from this ghetto ass earth.”
HipHopDX has reached out to CHIKA by phone and send her our support and love. Anyone struggling with suicidal thoughts, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at (800) 273-8255.
She needs to get help and stay off social media because that bs messes with your mental health, stop reading peoples comments and taking them anyway seriously . If she actually is suicidal then her family and friends need to get her committed to a psych ward
Agreed!!
This broad need a vacation to the mental Ward – nothing wrong with that, get a fresh perspective. Wish her well on her journey.
Exercise and lose weight and stop be so damn bitter about everything and hateful towards everyone else and maybe things might change for you. Your problem was always that you had a really bad attitude.
You’re actually a horrible human being, f*** you.
You’re a weak little bitch, here are some tissues. It’s a cold world out there and It’s Survival of the fittest.
Don’t get mad cuz he’s telling the truth. I met her at one of her shows and she put on an act like she was nice at first but when I took my daughter to ask for her autograph, she got acted like she didn’t have the time of day for it but was she was quick to sign then for women she thought was cute. She’s a snob.
Why does the answer have to be about her weight? It’s easier said than done. We are from the outside looking in. Her mental needs help first and foremost. When she’s ready for the physical, it will come. Losing weight doesn’t solve mental struggles. ?
If you’re going to do it for real you don’t send out these cries for help. Hope she’s getting the attention she so desperately craves.
You typically send out for tons of help before it comes to that.
Hope she’s ok:/ mental health is no joke under capitalism and the help can be underwhelming at time.
oh don’t get started.
I remember when you said to me “Don’t talk about it, be about it”
Section her! Now! Before the inevitable happens. This chick needs some true therapy and deserves a happy life to be shinin’ through for her.
Hopefully, she’ll get better — great artist, lot of potential. To Chika, herself: mental health issues are no joke. Been there, through it and back.
I’m from Ukraine and I’ve faced death numerous times in the last month. Life is worth it, as it is. I believe, you need a new perspective + professional help, for sure.
Please, listen to us.
Babe, don’t do this – :
The Light is worth the wait.
Brockhampton — The Light, Pt. II
Cheers!
Do you think she’s going to actually read this?
Strength and prayers to your country.
You got money. Get lipo and get some surgery done and say fuck you to the haters. Stop getting butt hurt over every social media comment that pops up. You see what Adele and Rebel Wilson did? Even though they took the long way by working out you can still do the surgery route. You see how much better they’re doing cuz of it.
Bruh, I don’t think she’s tryna off herself cuz she’s overweight…
What else is there then?
Mental health is serious. And not once did she mention her weight as a main factor. It could stem from childhood trauma. Losing weight probably won’t make her happy. It’s something within that messing with her. She has to get right mentally …
I believe it’s the cut throat music industry along with the negative comments from her haters.
Between the both of them it could be alot at times, that’s why Cardi B called her.
Finally someone with a brain! Thank you Elle! Many times it is a chemical imbalance that is only improved with medication; and then it could take trying many different places to find the ones that work and even then the problems are not eliminated they are just improved people still suffer like this woman and you people have no idea. Who would choose to be that way if they had the ability to change it? I mean really who would choose that you dumbass people. If everyone would just try to be a little more understanding and less judgmental. Humans are the cruelest animals on Earth ?
Damn, I thought it was Lizzo for a sec. Couldn’t get that lucky. Maybe one day…; )
I don’t agree with her teasing a suicide but you really sound awful.
she should look after herself. i have been there and so have others. you just have to look after yourself.
The strong survive, the attention seekers just seek attention. Seriously who tells the world they are going to commit suicide? Do it leave a note, stop bring despair to people just because you a dumb ass.
Next level attention seeking.
Should have read the fine print before signing with the Pimp of Souls. When the soul leaves the body, the heart dies
If you have ever been in St Paul Minnesota and haven’t had suicidal thoughts you are a true legend