Wentworth Miller Reveals Past Suicide Attempt
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Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Wentworth Miller, one of the former leads of the Fox drama Prison Break, came out as gay last month and revealed over the weekend that he attempted suicide as a teenager.
Miller made the revelation while speaking at a human rights campaign event in Seattle on Saturday.
In a video posted on TMZ, Miller says, “The first time I tried to kill myself I was 15. I waited until my family went away for the weekend and I was alone in the house and I swallowed a bottle of pills. I don’t remember what happened over the next couple days, but I’m pretty sure come Monday morning I was on a bus back to school pretending everything was fine. And when someone asked me if that was a cry for help, I say no, because I told no one.”
Miller said he had attempted suicide “more than once” as he struggled with his sexual orientation.
Miller also told the audience he was reluctant to come out publicly earlier in his career. “I was out in private, to family and friends…but professionally, publicly, I was not…I chose to lie…because when I thought about the possibility of coming out, how that might impact me and the career I worked so hard for, I was filled with fear,” said Miller.
Miller came out last month when he wrote a letter to the director of the St. Petersburg International Film Festival in Russia, declining to make an appearance at the event due to the country’s anti-gay policies.
Prison Break aired on Fox from 2005-2009.
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