{"id":13312,"date":"2021-02-23T08:47:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T13:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/uncategorized\/2021\/02\/chase-bryant-tried-to-take-his-own-life\/"},"modified":"2021-02-23T08:47:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T13:47:18","slug":"chase-bryant-tried-to-take-his-own-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/02\/chase-bryant-tried-to-take-his-own-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase Bryant Tried To Take His Own Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k7CoItb-Iqo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Chase Bryant has revealed that he tried to commit suicide back in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The failed attempt was brought on by depression and anxiety, along with turning into someone he no longer recognized. <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/country\/chase-bryant-surviving-2018-suicide-attempt-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He told People<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was chasing success\u2026 I wasn&#8217;t chasing happiness. I was trying to be something I wasn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chase is best known for his 2014 and 2015 hits &#8220;Take It on Back&#8221; and &#8220;Little Bit of You.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago, he had had enough, telling the magazine that he was tired of being told what to do, of not feeling good enough, and tired of &#8220;being someone he was not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chase said he went to a gas station in Nashville, left a long goodbye note on the seat of his truck and put his loaded .357 revolver to his head.<\/p>\n<p>He pulled the trigger, but nothing happened.<\/p>\n<p>After checking the chamber, he realized the gun had only five bullets in it, not six.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;So, when I looked at it at that moment, it was like, life&#8217;s too short, don&#8217;t make it any shorter. It ain&#8217;t worth it. We all have something to be thankful for, right? Looking back at it now, it&#8217;s so weird. You&#8217;re so dark and then all of a sudden you&#8217;re like, &#8216;OK, I got to get my s**t right so I can help somebody else.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chase has been back in the studio working on his first full-length project he has titled Upbringing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chase Bryant has revealed that he tried to commit suicide back in 2018.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":13313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[5218,617],"class_list":["post-13312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-chase-bryant","tag-suicide"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 18:09:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/02\/chase-bryant-tried-to-take-his-own-life\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}