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Wentworth
 Miller Attempted To Commit Suicide Before Coming Out Prison Break star 
Wentworth Miller, who came out as gay last month, has confessed that he 
attempted to commit suicide as a teenager.  
 At
 a Human Rights Campaign gala at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel Saturday, 
the 41-year-old described his difficult adolescence, saying that he was a
 “target” and “every day was rest a test and there was a thousand ways 
to fail.” Miller also admitted that, like many in the room, that he 
tried on multiple occasions to kill himself.  
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 “The
 first time I tried to kill myself I was 15. I waited until my family 
went away for the weekend and I was alone in the house and I swallowed a
 bottle of pills,” Miller said in a video acquired by TMZ. 
  “I
 don’t remember what happened over the next couple days, but I’m pretty 
sure come Monday morning I was on a bus back to school pretending 
everything was fine,” Miller added. “And when someone asked me if that 
was a cry for help, I say no, because I told no one. You only cry for 
help if you believe there is help to cry for. And I didn’t. I wanted 
out.” 
 Miller
 went on to describe giving thousands of interview while he was starring
 in Prison Break, and having several opportunities to “speak his truth” 
that he was a gay man.  
 “I
 was out privately to family and friends, people I’d learned to trust 
over time, but professionally, publicly, I was not,” he said. “Asked to 
be out of integrity, or out of the closet, I chose to lie. Because when I
 thought about the possibility of coming out, how that might impact me 
and the career I worked so hard for, I was filled with fear.”  
 Wentworth
 Miller came out in a letter to the organizers of the St. Petersburg 
International Film Festival in August. He was invited to attend, but 
declined in the wake of Russia’s anti-gay laws.  
 “Thank
 you for your kind invitation. As someone who has enjoyed visiting 
Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it 
would make me happy to say yes,” he wrote. “However, as a gay man, I 
must decline.”  
 Miller
 went on to say that he “cannot in good conscience participate in a 
celebratory occasion hosted by a country” where gay people are 
“systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.”

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