“I will say this was not unexpected by me. Saffo confirmed that Spade suffered from bipolar disorder (manic depression). Spade's sister Reta Saffo said in an email to the Daily News that she was not surprised that Spade took her own life. Page Six reports that Andy Spade looked at a few apartments in preparation to begin his life as a single father several months ago. Her husband, Andy Spade, broke his silence and revealed Spade to Reuters that Spade suffered from comorbid depression and anxiety disorders.
The note was found on the bed near her body. He wasn't there.Ī housekeeper discovered Spade's body in a bedroom at 10:10 am. Police disputed earlier reports that Andy Spade was in the Upper East Side apartment when Spade died. Spade was upset over “problems at home,” a source tells the NY Daily News. Then she fashioned a red scarf into a noose and hanged herself from a doorknob. Spade, 55, wrote a suicide note to her daughter, 13-year-old Frances Beatrix, telling her to "ask daddy" why she killed herself. If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-80.Bipolar Kate Spade Killed Herself After Husband Asked for Divorceįashion icon Kate Spade was so distraught over her impending divorce from husband Andy Spade that she committed suicide in her New York City apartment on Tuesday. Spade leaves behind a 13-year-old daughter, Frances Beatrix, who was reportedly at school at the time of her mother’s death.
Please!’ I know she perhaps had a plan, but she insisted she did not.” “Sometimes you simply cannot SAVE people from themselves! One of the last things she said to me was, ‘Reta, I know you hate funerals and don’t attend them, but for me would you PLEASE come to MINE, at least. “After numerous attempts, I finally let go,” Saffo wrote. Saffo said she suspected her sister may have been planning to take her own life for some time, and said Kate appeared to be particularly impacted by Robin Williams’ apparent suicide in 2014. She was always a very excitable little girl and I felt all the stress/pressure of her brand (KS) may have flipped the switch where she eventually became full-on manic depressive,” Saffo continued. I’d flown out to Napa and NYC several times in the past 3-4 years to help her to get the treatment she needed (inpatient hospitalization). Kate’s suicide “was not unexpected by me,” Saffo wrote, after declining to speak to the Kansas City Star by phone. In an email statement to the Kansas City Star, Kate’s older sister Reta Saffo said that Kate had struggled with depression for years, but suggested Spade did not get the treatment she needed in part because she was concerned about how it would impact her public image and brand. Law enforcement sources reportedly told TMZ that their interviews made it clear that Andy wanted a divorce while Kate, 55, did not. Andy was reportedly at the home when Kate’s body was discovered but it is unclear how long he had been there. TMZ reports that Kate’s husband and creative partner Andy Spade had moved out of the couple’s Park Avenue apartment where the iconic handbag designer reportedly hanged herself on Tuesday morning. Kate Spade’s husband reportedly sought a divorce before her apparent suicide on Tuesday.
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