Cheslie Kryst, 'Extra' correspondent and former Miss USA, dead at 30

I'm a pageant fan, and this death is pretty shocking to me, particularly because it's likely a suicide.

This girl had everything going for her. Cute, bubbly, successful, and accomplished.

She was an attorney and also had a career on television.

You really never know what's going on with people.

Not only that, but so many people seem to be taking their own lives lately.

Wtf is going on?

R1, no, you never know.

I've posted before but I had a buddy who killed himself; I still think about him a lot.

I've lost both my parents now and have no one, romantically; I have a solid job and friends. I don't think I'll ever kill myself but I"m afraid of having a bad day and getting out.

Sibs and I aren't close; no one will miss me.

I feel horribly for this woman and her family. I wish she'd asked for help.

Definitely a suicide, and not speculation.

CBS New York reported on the story.

Damn, she' fell from the 60th floor.

Some pageant fans are wondering if it was foul play, but there's no evidence of it.

I don’t mean to sound crass, but that’s a really selfish way to go. What if you landed on someone & killed them too?

Gruesome

Undiagnosed mental illness

Bad way to go... I've read accounts where guys who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge and lived relate that they regretted jumping the entire way down.

Why not just put a gun in your mouth? That's quick and (almost) certain.

Generally speaking, people who get to the point of committing suicide aren't thinking clearly. Someone who jumps may have wanted to get it over with right then and had no other method at hand.

She jumped from the 29th floor terrace of her building. Remember Letterman throwing watermelons off the roof? Brutal scene to clean up.

So far, I've read she jumped from the 9th, 29th, and the 60th floors.

I've only read that it was the 60th floor, R11.

And the linked news reports have also mentioned the 60th floor.

But someone said "she was seen on the 29th floor." Not that she jumped from there.

It seems like she was scouting out where to jump from.

Can you imagine looking down from the 29th floor, then deciding it wasn't high enough, so you had to go the 60th floor?

To me, that suggests she was determined to kill herself.

[quote]So far, I've read she jumped from the 9th, 29th, and the 60th floors.

This is true. It was the jump from the 60th that finally killed her.

That she was scouting for a spot makes it more chilling. There was some intense torment. Poor soul.

At 7am on a Sunday too r14.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that she lived on the 9th floor of the building.

So she lived on the 9th floor, she was seen on the 29th floor, but she ultimately jumped from the 60th floor.

That's where the confusion came from.

The building is 60 floors. She jumped from the 29th floor terrace. Not that it matters. She hit concrete. I hope she was high af when she jumped.

Was the EXTRA thing that she was really a man?

The fifth floor is good enough. No reason to go higher. People fuck up when they jump from a lower floor wreck their bodies but survive.

I've noticed the GW Bridge now has cages covering the walkways. I haven't heard of anyone surviving a jump from that bridge. It's unconstitutional. Their lives might be really fucked up and there are really no solutions. Nobody has a right to judge.

RIP, beautiful Cheslie.

Just 4 days ago

So pretty and accomplished. And yet so unhappy.

She was so beautiful! And even Gail King admired her. I wonder what drove her to it.

Truly a mystery.

She seems like a high over-achiever, who might have put too much pressure on herself.

To be so accomplished at such a young age doesn't come easy.

Commercialism killed her. The pressure of having to sell whatever it was she was offering on her social media platforms.

R18, I had that thought myself.

I read the Allure interview. She said she worked so hard earlier in life she ended up hospitalized for 8 days. I'm going to assume she had a mental breakdown. She believed she would become invisible in the eyes of society once she got older. Very sad. I feel like people are more emotionally fragile these days. Not sure why.

R8 I had a friend who killed himself by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. According to witnesses, he drove his car to the middle of the bridge, got out of the car, then took a running leap right over the rails.

Learn to do a fucking search, OP.

Why would she do something like that? People were criticizing her looks? She didn't care in her pageant days, why start 3 years down the line? She had multiple careers, was successful. May è someone pushed her?

Maybe she just wanted to make a snow angel?

R32 LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Turning 30 seems to be weighing heavily on young people today. My own sons have struggled with it too. I can't imagine young women, especially those competing on her level, would find it easy. The pressure of the fake culture has to be enormous on young people today.

This is so sad. I am sorry she couldn't envision herself in her 30's and 40's gaining wisdom and authority but still looking great and taking on projects that challenged her - then enjoying the fruits of her labors in her 50's and 60's.

It's so strange she got caught up worried about losing her looks and seeing that as her only value in society. If that's what this was about.

R32 Horrible! And yet, hilarious…

I posted the same on another thread. Um, maybe she was a dude? Or maybe intersex?

R34 Yeah that must have been it! 30!

Maybe she had financial troubles? People so rarely present the reality of their lives to the public because they don't want to be seen as weak or having failed in some way.

R38. Fuck right off, tranny.

I see a lot of pressure she put on herself to be perfect. The last picture she posted of herself on ig, very strange! Full make up, eyelashes, nails done, perfect lighting, everything; and the message that she knew it was her last day.

We need to change the culture around fashion, self perceptions, peer pressure, how society sees women. It's just crazy to pretend everything has to be perfect ALL THE TIME. It's not healthy and certainly not normal.

I’ve often heard many times that suicide jumpers die before they hit the ground. I so so so hope this is true. It is a very selfish and cruel and uncaring way to Jill yourself. But people with that level of illness aren’t doing anything rational. They’re truly sick. Bless the poor girl. So very sad.

I don't think jumping from the 29th floor makes you fall fast enough you become unconscious. In less than 2 seconds it was over for her. Humans fall 200 km/h in a freefall, about 120 mph for you Americans. If you fall head first, you fall even faster.

R22 that is just exactly the problem, though. Everyone assuming that to be young and physically attractive and have career achievements means you must have an excellent all-around life with a sound and non-fucked-up inner core/purpose/resilience/raison d’être/support system etc.

We cannot know the full context of what private life or past experience this woman endured, or with what or whom she was grappling behind closed doors.

I live across the street from her building. Sunday morning I pulled up may shades, and she was already in a body bag. Then, I watched for three hours as the cops and medical came and went. I had no idea who or what happened. I thought a vagrant froze. Later, when they said it was a jumper, I thought "Those windows don't open, the jumper had to go to the floor with the balcony (29th floor)." (The buliding has 60 floors, she lived on the 6th floor and jumped from the 29th floor.) I didn't know her, and I had no idea who she was. Seeing her photo's and her dancing and smiling, looking gorgous on "Extra" tonight, I cried my way though the whole half hour. I'm still a lbit shell shocked. As I look out my window today, there are people at that bus stop, and walking by, and they have no idea of the horror that happened yesterday morning.

So damm tragic !

I remember a poem called Richard Cory written in the 1890s. Richard Cory is the richest, smartest, and most handsome in town, admired by everyone. At the end of the poem Richard Cory kill’s himself and no one ever figures out why.

That sucks, r46. it’s a horrible thing to witness no matter who it is.

Just terribly sad Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. I've been suicidal in my past, but somehow it lifted and I can barely relate to my former despair. What a tough break.

When you jump from a great height, it's actually the best way to die because you feel nothing on impact. Instantly killed. The only downside of it is that you leave behind a mess.

R5 That you won't have to clean up, for a change

R34/R39 for my recent 30th birthday I literally curved🙃couldn’t face seeing anyone or opening cards over coffee or taking well-wishing phonecalls. so i pulled a bilbo baggins—snuck out my own back door and went hiking in the woods by myself all day. when i got back that evening, turns out my loved ones were offended and took it personally (why?) but i did not care! I was feeling depressed and needed the space so i took it (birthday pass means you can do what you want within legal and moral reason)

So it worked for you, R51? Good job.

What you do 6 days a week for +8hrs per day matters. Who you’re surrounded with matters as well.

If you feel like your work is meaningless drudgery, the people in your life don’t know you or aren’t there for you, and/or the environment you’re in is in some significant way dreadful, you’re not in a good place.

I read one of her interviews and she said she wakes up at 6:45 every day. She was found at 7:15, so she must have woken up, posted a final message on IG, then gone up to the 29th floor and jumped. Creepy.

She also said in another interview that she sees each her accomplishments as just another prize to put on the shelf, and all the time she's wracked with "crushing feelings of insecurity and self-doubt." It's so sad to realize nobody was listening, and to think this smart, beautiful, highly accomplished woman viewed each of her many achievements as if they were just another stuffed toy she won at the carnival.

Our society today makes people feel like it's never enough. There's always this push for more, more, MORE! Plus, you are now expected to be the best at everything! There is just no peace from this junk.

R56, In this age of growing up with social media, I'm so glad I'm an "elder".

I was very insecure and withdrawn growing up, but I had a small circle of friends to hang out with and be nerdy with. I didn't have all these perfect bodies, faces and thrilling lives in my face 24/7 to compare myself to.

I do like social media for making contact with people from all over to talk about music, meditation, books, art and food that I would never would have had the opportunity to "meet", but the other side of it, the Kardashian effect, is deadly. I never would have survived as a teen or younger adult.

She put other people at risk of physical harm and even death at worst and subjected others to severe psychological trauma at the very least. I have friends who have witnessed suicides and they are forever fucked up. This kind of public suicide creates multiple victims.

I feel for her in that she had mental health issues, and I understand that suicide is a desperate act, but for god's sake, don't put others at risk physically or psychological.

Maybe it was still the need she felt to "go big". Our culture is really fucked up.

People have always committed suicide, been tortured by growing older and becoming invisible and been failures at what they most wanted to achieve. This is nothing new and I'd hardly blame it on today's culture.

As a homely gay man I've always been invisible so while it's been very painful there was never a chilling point where I stopped receiving phone calls. I never got them to begin with.

I think I know how you feel, r61.

R59 then perhaps suicide should be decriminalised, and made easier and safer and more private and dignified for those who really wish to commit?

R63 Are you really pushing for legalization of euthanasia for those with mental health issues?

I doubt she woke up and killed herself. I would imagine she was up all night thinking about it.

When mental health issues have dogged a person for years death can only be a relief. So yes euthanasia should be legalized and people's deaths should be as comfortable and clean as possible. The pain of those left behind is nothing compared to the pain that person is going through. Their selfishness is not the concern of the suicide.

The only time I ever thought about suicide was when I was 18. Adult life just seemed too hard to endure. But I still enjoyed eating and I decided my mind didn’t have the right to kill my stomach. So that was that.I understand getting depressed at a milestone birthday but not murdering yourself.

R50, I came to this realization after micro dosing mushroom 🍄. . But I have a lot of empathy and concern for people in the throes of this insidious mind/ soul sucker

[quote]When you jump from a great height, it's actually the best way to die because you feel nothing on impact.

"How do you know?"

Some GOP jackass was online writing how all of this was Joe Biden's fault because he was supposed to fix the pandemic.

Yeah, both sides...

Old nose. Old teeth. Go to 2:38

I hate when people say suicide is selfish. If someone chooses to end her life because of immense physical pain from a terminal illness, no one would call her selfish. Why should mental pain and anguish be treated differently?

That said, I do think there's a certain element of anger in public suicides. People who throw themselves off of buildings or jump in front of moving trains want the world to see and know their pain. It kind of reminds me of Christine Chubbock.

If she jumped head first maybe all that hair would have softened the blow.

R73 LOOOOOOOOOL

If I were going to do the deed, I'd go out like Robin Williams or Kate Spade.

Why leave an enormous mess and risk hitting someone on the ground level?

I would overdose myself with COPIOUS amounts of sedatives

R76 Gotta be careful with that. Too many sedatives can cause violent, painful convulsions and vomiting and excruciating death.

See Lupe Velez.

Why do some people jump off a building instead of overdosing or gunshot etc? Is it because they hated their physical bodies so much they wanted it mangled?

[quote] Why do some people jump off a building instead of overdosing or gunshot etc? Is it because they hated their physical bodies so much they wanted it mangled?

Exactly. They really do hate themselves, that they want to do maximum damage.

I liken it to Heather Chandler in the movie Heathers.

She sucks cock to be popular, and then when it's all done she goes into the bathroom, looks at herself in the mirror, then spits on her reflection.

It's the ultimate self-loathing and self-hatred.

The mother released a statement that Chesly suffered from "high-functioning depression" which she hid from the world.

I just think she was nuts.