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Demi Saves Another Life Through Twitter
Posted on Fri Mar 19, 2010 02:50 PM PDT
For the second time since she started Tweeting, Demi Moore has saved the life of a suicidal fan.
Last night, Demi received a tweet from Jeremy Lynch in Casselberry, Florida which read:
- "@mrskutcher I'm about to go hang myself from a tree outside my house and end my life. I have no reason to live anymore. I am going to send a live feed of me hanging myself. No one cares if I die or not."
Demi immediately responded, asking him, "R U rlly asking 4 help?"
That's when the Twitterverse sprang into action. Actress Nia Vardalos, who saw the tweet, called a suicide-prevention hotline in Los Angeles, who was patched through to a dispatcher for the Seminole County Sheriff's department. She tweeted, "I gave his name+city. They went to home, helped him."
In a report obtained by The Orlando Sentinel, Deputy Alan J. Layton responded to the call and arrived at the home where he found a young man sobbing at his desk.
"I asked [the man] if he posted this on Twitter and he said he did," Layton reported. He "seemed confused when I spoke to him and he continued to cry the entire time." The man told Layton he needed medical help.
The man was taken to an area hospital.
This is not the first time Moore has staged an intervention via Twitter. Last year, a San Jose woman tweeted a similar cry for help and Moore's response led several of her Twitter followers to call the authorities.
Twitter DOES save lives!
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Comments
Twitter is a narcissist's wet dream.
Sounds like NIA saved a life, not Demi.
Sounds like NIA saved a life, not Demi.
NIA saved a life- you should change the headline to give her the credit she deserves. Great to read a story with a happy ending like this- way to go, Nia!
So I am assuming that Demi Moore posted this story - clearly, it wasn't Nia, the poor young man or the police. How much time does Demi spend on Twitter anyway?
Demi didn't save anyone. Nia is the one who did it all. Why do people think Demi is such a hero for simply asking if the guy was really asking for help? She didn't give it to him. Someone else did.
she is paranoic....tewitter twitter
looser old hagg
I agree with previous Anonymous post: Demi Moore did nothing!!! Nia saved his life, Demi was just hanging out on Twitter.
This old mummy is selfish.She acts like she "saved" the man's life alone,without help.Nia asked for help,not Demi.And then the police went to his house(and not Demi too)...but she saved his life,bs,she gave a tweet,but other people acted and saved him,not her.
X17,she didn't save him.Nia and the police saved his life.Demi only tweeted to him once,but didn't save him at all.Stop protecting this futile mummy.
She's a nobody,she doesn't act in movies in ages and still raises her son,i mean,her son-husband.lol
Yeah,mummy like an ancient egypt mummy...lol
Yeah. So Nia did it. Why isn't her pic up there?
no one cares if i die so i'm gonna show a live feed of me hanging myself and post everything on twitter. tool.
God yes 4:39 couldn't agree more. Why stick a message on twitter that you're about to hang yourself, why not just do it. I bet a thousand bucks he was never going to commit suicide.