A former beauty queen who leaped from a Manhattan apartment building to her death battled high-functioning depression, her mom has revealed.
April Simpkins said she is ‘forever changed’ the death of her daughter Cheslie Kryst, a former Miss USA whose bubbly and vivacious personality masked inner struggles.
‘Cheslie led both a public and a private life,’ Simpkins shared on Instagram. ‘In her private life, she was dealing with high-functioning depression which she hid from everyone – including me, her closest confidant – until very shortly before her death.’
Kryst, 30, was discovered on a sidewalk next to her luxury apartment building The Orion in Hell’s Kitchen on Sunday morning. Although she lived alone in the complex’s ninth floor, she was last seen in a common area on an open terrace on the 29th level.
‘While her life on this earth was short, it was filled with many beautiful memories,’ her mom said. ‘We miss her laugh, her words of wisdom, her sense of humor and mostly her hugs. We miss all of it – we miss all of her. She was a vital part of our family which makes this loss even more devastating.’
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Source: Daily Mail
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