Reality TV Shows That Ruined People's Lives

This article contains mentions of sexual assault, addiction, and suicide.

It may be hard to believe, but the whole reality TV phenomenon is really just 20 or so years old. The explosion of reality TV in the early 2000s not only introduced various subgenres of reality shows — from "Survivor"-style reality competitions to the unhinged antics of the "Real Housewives" franchise — but it also brought about an entirely new type of celebrity: The reality star. This upended television in some significant ways; prior to the reality TV boom, people who appeared on TV would have typically had to demonstrate some sort of talent, be it acting, singing, comedy, or some other type of performing art.

Not so with reality stars, where the only skills necessary are an oversized personality, questionable life choices, and the ability to conjure up drama out of thin air. For those who have achieved reality show fame, the experience of transforming overnight from anonymous civilian to bona fide celebrity can be a jarring one. The same spotlight in which these reality stars bask also has a tendency to shine on some of the more unsavory aspects of their lives.

Ultimately, appearing on a reality show not only brings fame, but can also stir up problems — sometimes so big that lives have been utterly upended in the process.

When "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" started in 2007, hardly any of the cast knew the significance of what they were embarking on. Unfortunately, for Kourtney Kardashian's on-again-off-again boyfriend and father of her children, Scott Disick, it would lead him down a dark and difficult path. Over the years, reality TV cameras have captured Disick spiral out of control on numerous alcohol benders including a time when Kardashian locked him out of their summer Hampton's home back in 2014, reported TMZ. And over the next several years, he would continue his battle with alcohol. As the reality cameras continued to record, the money continued to flow in, pushing Disick's behavior from bad to worse.

According to E! News, Disick has been to rehab four times and his most recent attempt to get sober was in October 2015. It was also his second trip to rehab that year. "This behavior has been going on for years," Kardashian said on their Hamptons spinoff show. "I've pretty much become a broken record and I'm sick of hearing myself."

In May 2017, Disick reportedly went on another crazy bender – this time in Cannes, France with a harem of women. Bella Thorne, who joined him for a short spell, confessed he parties way too hard. "He drinks a lot," she told Complex U.K. "...I just don't party hardcore like that and it was way too much for me."

"Jersey Shore" made average New Jersey kids super famous during its six season tenure on MTV. Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino was undoubtedly one of the most notable cast members. While he was becoming a household name, he was also battling a nasty addiction to prescription medication. When the series ended in 2012, he went to rehab to fix his life, reports People (via IMDb). "When I had gotten out of 'Jersey Shore,' I had a year to settle down and find out who I was, and I wasn't in the best shape," the star told the magazine in 2014. "I had to rebuild myself inside and out." In all he spent a year in recovery, which was difficult due to his party lifestyle. His fame seemingly only made the journey more difficult. "Because of the parties and the traveling the percentage on recovery is not the best," he added. "It was extremely hard and it took every ounce of effort for me, and I just put my head down and kept moving forward."

Fast forward several years and the show that gave him star status is still plaguing him. According to Forbes, Sorrentino was slapped with tax-related and conspiracy charges in both 2014 and 2017. The publication claims that Sorrentino and his brother used two companies they own to dodge paying taxes. He was eventually sentenced to eight months in prison for tax evasion and was released in 2019.

After tying the knot, Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson thought it was a good idea to let MTV reality cameras into their home as they handled being a new couple. The show, "Newlyweds," lasted just as long as the marriage. It ran from 2003 to 2005, while their union ended in divorce in 2006.

In hindsight, it may not have been the best idea to let viewers watch a new couple iron out financial details, living arrangements and other little arguments. It simply leaves everything in the open for all to debate — leaving nothing private anymore. By the final season, it was obvious the couple was hitting a rough patch.

Years later, Lachey appeared indifferent about the show that made them reality TV famous. "I don't rush right down to Macy's and buy a bunch of clothes or shoes, but I also don't hiss at the TV — it's somewhere in the middle," he said about catching reruns on TV on Jenny McCarthy's SiriusXM show (via Us Weekly). Simpson had a much different response confessing to Page Six that she "would have a panic attack" whenever she saw reruns on TV. To add more salt to the wound, Simpson confessed that marrying Lachey wasn't a good idea moneywise. "The biggest money mistakes? I don't know. For some reason I thought of my first marriage," she told CNBC's Closing Bell. Ouch!

"The Hills" ruined Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt's lives because the success simply went to their heads. "I got way too into my character, that's a problem," Pratt told Entertainment Tonight about taking on a villainous character in the reality series. "I didn't separate, like, the audience people. You're on a reality show, you're not Heath Ledger playing the Joker, like I thought I was. So, I should have been in a different set, you know, getting very method."

He says when the show ended in 2010, they were at the top of their game financially. After, they were in financial ruin. "Your brain melts," he said of the fame. "Because at the time, we were the Kardashians. Speidi had that. We felt that." As of 2016, they'd spent all their cash and were living rent free in his parent's rental property. Pratt said their daily lives consisted of walking dogs and eating burritos.

And of course, everyone remembers Montag's quest to be the most talked about woman on television, electing to undergo almost a dozen plastic surgery procedures. She later regretted doing all that work to her body telling Entertainment Tonight, "I think that it was hard enough going through it at that time and I was just in way over my head. I had no idea what I was getting into."

There's simply no coming back from sexual assault allegations. In June 2017, "Bachelor in Paradise" contestant DeMario Jackson found himself in the hot seat after a producer flagged what they believed may have been a sexual assault between Jackson and fellow contestant Corinne Olympios. Both participants were reportedly drinking during their sexual encounter. In the following days, Olympios called herself the "victim" in the filmed incident while Jackson said his character had been "assassinated," reports People. "It's unfortunate that my character and family name has been assassinated this past week with false claims and malicious allegations," Jackson said in a statement. "I will be taking swift and appropriate legal action until my name is cleared and, per the advice of legal counsel, will be seeking all available remedies entitled to me under the laws."

After news of the alleged incident made headlines, the show shut down production to investigate the matter, adds another People report. Some 10 days later, the investigation turned up no evidence of sexual misconduct between the involved parties. Warner Bros. — the show's parent company — issued a statement saying, "Out of respect for the privacy interests of those involved, we do not intend to release the videotape of the incident."

Unfortunately, the headlines against Jackson were so damaging, he may not be able to recover. In 2022, two women accused him of sexually assaulting them, with one incident allegedly happening months after he returned from "Bachelor in Paradise."

When the Duggars decided to put their super large family on reality TV in "19 Kids and Counting" in 2008, little did they know it would expose all their dirty secrets. The biggest shocker they kept behind closed doors was that the family's eldest son, Josh Duggar, several years earlier had sexually molested multiple young girls including four of his own sisters, reports USA Today. By June 2015, the show was permanently cancelled by TLC.

Months later, Josh would drop another bomb confessing he had been unfaithful to his wife and that he was a member of the adultery website AshleyMadison.com. "I have been the biggest hypocrite ever," he said in a statement (via Time). "While espousing faith and family values, I have secretly over the last several years been viewing pornography on the Internet and this became a secret addiction and I became unfaithful to my wife." 

Josh was eventually convicted on child pornography charges in 2021 and was sentenced to over 12 years in prison. Had he and his family never put their lives on television, these facts may have never been dug up.

Phaedra Parks and Apollo Nida's entire marriage was played out on "The Real Housewives of Atlanta." The pair wed one year before she joined the series in 2010. The pair would go on to welcome kids in 2010 and 2013. But things quickly went south after Nida was charged and sentenced to eight years in prison for mail, bank and wire fraud, reports People. He originally faced 30 years but his sentence was reduced for cooperating with the investigation.

But while the former couple ironed out the details of their long-dragged out divorce, Parks faced another crisis of her own. She got caught up in a nasty web of lies involving castmates Kandi Burruss and Porsha Williams on "RHOA." As the story goes, Parks spread the lie that Burruss and her husband, Todd Tucker, planned to drug Williams and take her home. "I repeated it because I heard it," Parks confessed on their ninth season reunion special, per Us Weekly. "Something was brought to me. I just repeated it. I repeated what someone told me. I'm not saying I didn't say it. I'm saying I repeated it."

Parks did apologize, but her credibility as a friend and as an attorney was shot. She was ultimately let go from the show after Season 9, and Williams felt their entire friendship was for the cameras.

Jealousy and matters of money have torn apart Mama June's relationship with her eldest daughter Anna "Chickadee" Cardwell. In an E! News interview, Cardwell claimed her mother lost all the weight and underwent plastic surgery just for fame. "I don't think she did it just for her because she never mentioned anything ever before about getting plastic surgery," she told the site.

As for the money aspect, it's driving the rift between the former duo. Cardwell says her famous mother owes both her and her daughter, Kaitlyn, nearly "half a million dollars" from making appearances on "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo." "She claims that she cares and misses Kaitlyn but can't even check up on her and call her and see how she's doing," Cardwell said acknowledging her contact with her mother is very limited and sparse. She also doesn't talk with her fellow sisters Alana Thompson, Lauryn Shannon, and Jessica Shannon. "None of them have called me," Cardwell said. "I can give two craps about them."

Mama June has her own thoughts on their strained relationship. "She's had opportunities to get on the show and I think like for her, it's more of 'Okay, mama is on TV and I'm not part of it, I'm not getting any money off of it,'" Mama June told Life & Style. "So it's more like a jealousy thing." The matriarch lost custody of Thompson in 2022, and the young pageant star was put in the care of sister Lauryn. 

Chris Bukowski rose to fame in the 2012 season of "The Bachelorette." But just a handful of years later, he would announce his retirement from reality TV saying the experience nearly ruined his life and his relationship with his family. In all, he appeared on "The Bachelorette," "Bachelor Pad," and "Bachelor in Paradise."

"'Bachelor Pad' was the pinnacle of my 'Bachelor' career to say the least," he shared in a blog rant, according to Us Weekly. "It almost completely ruined me, my family, and my career. I'll never forget going to my parents' house and witnessing my dad obsess over all the stuff being said about me. That show ruined my relationship with my father at the time and created distance between me and my mother ... I went months without talking to my dad because he simply didn't want to talk to me." After begging to be let on and rejected from Andi Dorfman's "Bachelorette" season in 2014, things had gotten worse. "At this point [in] my career, I had officially become the biggest joke on reality TV. Attempting to fix my reputation had ultimately made it worse."

Looking back, he said TV had driven him down some terrible places. "We all have our battles," he added. "But my TV obsession had taken me down a dark road. I was battling anxiety that led me down a road where I couldn't find happiness. I compounded the problem by getting addicted to my anxiety medication."

Rob Kardashian is not cut out for reality TV. More than any of his sisters, Rob has experienced so many emotional ups and downs, including an 2012 episode of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" (via E! News) when he burst into tears talking with a family therapist. "My anger, a lot of it stems from the working environment, because they all put this cloud on me like I'm a loser," Rob shared. "I blow up later because when there's a business opportunity, all my mom obviously cares about is the three girls." For the next several years, Rob left the public eye, rarely leaving sister Khloé Kardashian's house.

Things began to turn around for Rob when he started dating Blac Chyna in early 2016. Chyna managed to pull Rob out of his shell and back into normal life. But their romance was never solid as evident from their 2016 spin-off series, "Rob & Chyna." The couple was on-again-off-again, but eventually split in 2017 after welcoming their daughter, Dream. With their tumultuous split came the end of their reality show.

The two eventually came to a joint custody agreement in 2017. In an August 2023 interview with Entertainment Tonight, Chyna gave an update on the former couple's co-parenting relationship. "I feel like with everything — time heals everything, and people change, and situations change, and you get to see the situation for what it is, and the situation is Dream," she said.

Drugs, rehab, prison and more have all been part of Amber Portwood's young life as the star of "Teen Mom." While some may have seen being on reality TV as a way out of sticky living situations, Portwood seemingly squandered the opportunity. According to E! News, Portwood was sentenced to five years in jail for drug possession charges stemming from a December 2011 incident. During a 2013 interview with Dr. Phil, Portwood confessed that she abused drugs while both filming the reality show and while she was in rehab. "Every time you see me on that show ['Teen Mom'], I am high," she confessed.

By the spring of 2017, things had not improved for Portwood. She revealed in an episode of "Teen Mom" (via People) that she was re-diagnosed with borderline personality and bipolar disorder, and due to the medication, which she'll have to take for the remainder of her life, doctors suggested she should not get pregnant as the medication can have adverse effects on the fetus.

In a fortunate turn of events, Portwood gave birth to her second child, James, in 2018 with her then-boyfriend, Andrew Glennon. After a battle in court after their eventual breakup, Glennon was granted custody of their son in 2022.

Teresa Giudice became a standout on "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," best remembered for dramatically flipping over a table during a restaurant fight. With her star on the rise — including a 2012 stint on "The Celebrity Apprentice" – it all came crashing down in 2013 when she and husband Joe Giudice were indicted on 39 federal charges, including bank fraud, tax fraud, bankruptcy fraud, and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. They ended up pleading guilty to a smaller list of offenses, and in 2014, Teresa was sentenced to 15 months in prison, while her husband was ordered to serve 41 months. 

"I mean, the living conditions were really horrible. Like, horrible," she said after her release, describing her prison experience in a 2016 interview with "Good Morning America" (via ABC News). "There were some nights that we didn't even have heat ... it was hell." Joe was eventually released in March 2019. Just a few months later, in December 2019, the Giudices announced their split and finalized their divorce the following year. 

Appearing on a BravoCon panel in 2022, Teresa was adamant that her "Real Housewives" fame was the reason why she and her ex-husband received such severe sentences. "I got used as an example. What's the saying? The good comes with the bad. Meaning, like, because I was on TV — if I was just a regular housewife, I probably wouldn't have went to jail," she explained, as reported by People.

Reality TV can be a place to make a quick, big buck. Just ask former "Dance Moms" star Abby Lee Miller, who pled guilty to bankruptcy fraud in 2017. She was charged for hiding upwards of $775,000 she earned from various shows and projects. Ultimately, Miller was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison for her crimes. She was also ordered to pay a $40,000 fine and $120,000 of the income she allegedly smuggled from overseas.

Speaking about her impending sentencing, Miller worried what will happen to her behind bars. "I'm afraid of being physically abused," she said in an interview with People. "I have to stay busy. If I thought about it every day, I'd just sit around and cry." She was released from prison in 2018.

In her online resignation letter, posted to Instagram, Miller also accused the "Dance Moms" production team of treating her like dirt. "I just have a problem with being manipulated disrespected, and used day in and day out by men who never took a dance lesson in their lives and treat women like dirt," she ranted.

Stephen Fowler appeared in a 2009 episode of "Wife Swap," a reality show in which one half of two couples switch places to live with the other's spouse. In the episode, a woman from rural Missouri moved in with Fowler at his home in San Francisco, and audiences watched Fowler continually belittle her intelligence. At one point in the episode, she read her new household rules to Fowler and his children. "You read that so well, congratulations," he laughingly snarked. "I didn't know you could read."

Fowler's behavior did not go unnoticed by the viewing audience and by those in his real life. As Today reported in 2009, his stint on the show resulted in much backlash, including a website called StephenFowlerSucks.com and a Facebook group titled "I Can not Stand Stephen Fowler from 'Wife Swap."'

Two years later, the controversy over his appearance had yet to die down. "I do regret going on the show," Fowler told The Noe Valley Voice in 2011, revealing his experience on "Wife Swap" led to him being fired from his job and caused a major strain on his marriage. "I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy." However, Fowler also contended that what viewers saw wasn't his actual personality, claiming producers pushed him to overreact. "They strongly encouraged me to be acerbic," he explained. "I was playing a character. I was playing a role ... like Simon Cowell on steroids."

Renee Alway was among the models competing on Cycle 8 of "America's Next Top Model," making it to the final three in 2007. Alway expected that the exposure from the show would pave the way for a fruitful modeling career, yet that never happened. "It was just closed door, after closed door, after closed door. And that was really hard to take," she said in a 2015 interview with ABC News affiliate, KESQ.com. She wound up becoming addicted to prescription painkillers, which ultimately led to heroin and homelessness. 

In 2013, Palm Springs police responded to a report of a suspicious woman seen within a supposedly vacant house, as reported by TMZ. After a six-hour standoff with a SWAT team, Alway — who had a gun — was arrested and charged with several felonies. She eventually cut a plea deal and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. "I can't even remember what was happening then," she told ABC News about her life prior to prison. "That's how bad it was. I have bits and pieces of broken memory about it."

In 2018, Alway was released from prison after serving five years. About one year later, she was arrested in 2019. She was again hit with several charges, including domestic violence and making terrorist threats, in addition to violating the terms of her parole. She was sent back to prison and was reportedly eligible for parole in spring 2023.

Attorney Tom Girardi was frequently seen on "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" as the husband of cast member Erika Jayne, with the couple showcasing their luxurious home and lifestyle onscreen. In late 2020, Jayne filed for divorce. Shortly after, however, the two were hit with a lawsuit alleging that Girardi's law firm, Girardi & Keese, embezzled millions of dollars in settlement money that was meant to be paid out to the relatives of the victims of the 2018 Lion Air Flight 610 crash – and that the couple's divorce was a "sham" to evade paying that money back.

Fast forward to February 2023, when Girardi and his law firm's CFO, Christopher Kazuo Kamon, were indicted on federal fraud charges, accused of ripping off multiple clients out of over $15 million. "Mr. Girardi and Mr. Kamon allegedly created a mirage over several years in order to disguise the fact that they were robbing Girardi Keese clients of large sums of money," the FBI's press release stated. "The defendants exploited the hardships endured by their clients and took advantage of their unfamiliarity with the legal process while they denied victims what was rightfully due to them in order to fund their lavish lifestyles." 

The moral of the story: Anyone who subsidizes a ridiculously opulent lifestyle by allegedly embezzling millions from clients maybe shouldn't flaunt said lifestyle on a popular television show.

"Extreme Makeover" arrived on ABC in 2002, with participants in the show receiving plastic surgery, cosmetic dentistry, and other treatments designed to improve their appearance. In 2003, Texas resident Deleese Williams was tapped to appear on the program and receive her own makeover. Williams, who had spent her life uncomfortable with her physical appearance, was elated. In January 2004, she traveled to Los Angeles, where she had two weeks of meeting with surgeons, dentists, and personal trainers in advance of the procedures — which included breaking her jaw and then resetting it — that she believed would change her life. 

However, the night before she was scheduled to undergo surgery, she received a visit from one of the show's producers, informing her that everything had been canceled because the time it would take for her to recover wouldn't jibe with the show's production schedule. Heartbroken, she returned to Texas.

Four months later, Williams's sister, Kellie McGee, died by suicide. Williams responded by suing the show. As The Seattle Times reported, her lawsuit alleged that the producers had encouraged McGee to make "hurtful and horrific statements" about Williams' appearance during a videotaped interview. McGee, the lawsuit claimed, had bipolar disorder and felt so guilty over what she'd said that she could no longer live with it. "Sometimes Deleese blames herself for Kellie's death," the lawsuit stated. The case was reportedly settled out of court, with Williams reportedly awarded more than $300,000.

Gia Allemand appeared in Season 14 of "The Bachelor" in 2010 as one of the bevy of women vying for the heart of pilot Jake Pavelka. As viewers will recall, she was booted off the show the week before the final rose ceremony. However, in a 2010 post-elimination interview with Digital Spy, she said that despite not being chosen, she loved her time on the show. "Oh, wow, it really did change my life," she said. "I have no regrets." She returned to the franchise later that same year in the first season of the spinoff series, "Bachelor Pad," and was back for its second season the following year.

In August 2013, Allemand attempted to take her own life after a fight with her boyfriend, Ryan Anderson, that was allegedly over her suspicions that he'd cheated on her, as E! News reported. She tragically died the following day after being taken off life support. She left a note, reading, "Mom gets everything."

While it's impossible to know how or if her "Bachelor" experience contributed to her tragic death, series creator Mike Fleiss told People that she passed an extensive background check and psychological evaluation before being selected for the show. In addition, then-host Chris Harrison explained that there's also a support system in place after participants in the show exit. "We go to great lengths to make sure these people are okay," Harrison said. 

Arguably the most notorious episode of Gordon Ramsay's "Kitchen Nightmares" aired in 2013 and featured Amy's Baking Company of Scottsdale, Arizona. In the series, Ramsay utilizes his signature tough-love approach to help struggling restaurants find success by identifying and then remedying each eatery's various shortcomings. Ramsay, however, met his match with restaurant owners Amy and Samy Bouzaglo and threw in the towel. "I can't help people that can't help themselves and cannot ever take one ounce of criticism. If you're not willing to change, I'm not going to butt heads, argue, scream," Ramsay told the couple, as reported by Eater. "You have the right to run the business the way you want to run your business. I have the right to do the right thing. And the right thing for me is to get out of here."

The Bouzaglos responded by suing Ramsay for alleged sexual harassment. A statement from the show's producers refuted their claims, reading, "These ridiculous accusations are completely untrue." Meanwhile, Bouzgalos also began feuding with viewers who'd left negative comments about them on Facebook.

Two years later, Amy's Baking Company closed after the couple sold the building. In 2018, they moved to Israel. "I literally just wanted to die," Amy told the New York Post of their experience, blaming the show's editing for the way they came off. "They really made us seem like horrible people," she added.

Making its TV debut in 2010, "The Real Housewives of D.C." proved to be a rare failure in the franchise, being canceled by Bravo after just one season. Among the cast was Cat Ommanney, hailing from London as one of the first Brits to appear in the "Housewives" franchise. Her husband, Charles Ommanney, served as a White House photographer during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, before becoming the personal photographer of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Shortly after the show ended, so did the couple's marriage. "It's been a very interesting journey," Cat told Parade of being a Housewife in 2010. "Obviously, my marriage fell apart and so my life has been completely turned upside down and inside out ... I've had to do some major soul searching and I still am."

Her ex-husband, however, rued the day he agreed to appear on the show. When it aired, he refused to watch. "It's just too painful," Charles explained to The New York Times. "I have very few regrets in my life, but this is the one." Ultimately, he found his involvement with the show to be an embarrassment, admitting he only signed on because it was something Cat was passionate about. "I put all my reservations aside and said: 'Go for it. Do it if it makes you happy,'" he recalled. "I lost touch with everyone, and mix that with my marriage falling apart and the show taking over, it was very sad."

For the 2006 season, Paula Goodspeed was among the aspiring singers to audition before judges Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson, and Paula Abdul on "American Idol." "I really like Paula Abdul a lot, she's really cool," Goodspeed told host Ryan Seacrest, with the segment revealing her hobby was drawing pictures of Abdul. Her audition — an a cappella rendition of "Proud Mary" — didn't earn her a golden ticket to Hollywood. 

Two years later, Goodspeed was found dead in her car, which was parked just down the street from Abdul's home, as reported by Reuters. Police ruled her death to be a suicide via drug overdose. It was subsequently reported that Goodspeed, a week before her death, had sent flowers to Abdul. Since Goodspeed's audition nearly three years earlier, Abdul had received over 100 letters from her, in addition to multiple phone calls and even a few attempts to visit her at her home. 

During a 2008 appearance on Barbara Walters's Sirius XM show, "Barbara Live" (via People), Abdul revealed that Goodspeed had been stalking her for years before "American Idol" producers brought her in to audition and had been sending her "disturbing letters" for almost 18 years. "I said, 'This girl is a stalker of mine. Please do not let her in.' Everyone knew. I was shaking,'" Abdul told Walters, claiming the producers ignored her pleas and let Goodspeed audition because they figured it would "be fun for them to cause me stress."

Lesley Sanderson had been just 19 when she was chosen for the U.K.'s "Big Brother" in 2005, making quite the impression on viewers when she showed up wearing a nurse's uniform. She proved to be a combative personality and clashed with fellow houseguests until being evicted in the second week. 

Her brief stint on the show brought her notoriety, but Sanderson claimed that it also sparked the beginning of her personal downfall. "'Big Brother' ruined my life and turned me into a hate figure," she explained to The Mirror in a 2005 interview, asserting that the experience propelled her drug abuse. "I thought cocaine was the only way to block out the pain. Before 'Big Brother' I had never touched drugs."

She went on to sue two British tabloids over what she declared to be false allegations about her sexual promiscuity. "They claimed I did sexual favors for boys at school, that I got pregnant at 15, that I had sex with my driving instructor outside my house, that I had had 100 lovers," she told The Examiner in 2007. She ultimately won the case, receiving a public apology and a sizeable cash settlement.

If you or anyone you know is struggling or in crisis, has been a victim of sexual assault, needs help with addiction issues, contact the relevant resources below:

• Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by dialing 988 or by calling 1-800-273-TALK (8255)​.
• Visit the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network website or contact RAINN's National Helpline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).

• Visit the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration website or contact SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).