TAMAR THANKFUL FOR ‘2ND CHANCE’
Singer Tamar Braxton thanked God for a second chance at life Tuesday as she continued recovering from a summer suicide attempt.
“God thank you for saving me! You know my true heart,” she wrote in a poignant Instagram post. “Despite what the world may think of me, you kept me here for a reason. You are a God of second chances, and this second chance I won’t take for granted. The world can often be a dark place but I must resort to you for my light.”
Braxton, 43, was rushed to a hospital in July after being found unresponsive in what she later confirmed was a suicide attempt, according to People.
The premiere of her reality show, WE tv’s “Get Ya Life,” about the Soul Train Award-winning singer’s life as a mother to 7-year-old son Logan, her music career and her sojourns into romance, was postponed at the time.
Instead the show debuted two weeks ago, on Sept. 10, though that turned out to be the same day her ex-boyfriend David Adefeso, filed for a restraining order against her, People reported – even though she had credited him with saving her life.
Braxton wrote that she had for too long focused on the well-being of everyone but herself, and was finally learning to prioritize the latter.
“Ladies, have you ever felt like you put all your time and love into your children, job, relationship and family but often forget to love yourself ?” she wrote.
“That is where I have been for the past few years. I believe I have put a lot of time and effort in loving and giving my all to everything else but myself. I have allowed myself to stay in toxic situations including work environments.”
Braxton acknowledged that she’d been “battling mental health for some time now, and let me tell y’all is not a joke,” she wrote. “Nor is it a reason for anyone to call you ‘crazy.’ I am praying for anyone that is on this same battle.” The singer famously walked off the family reality show “Braxton Family Values” in 2018, later telling “The Wendy Williams Show” that she had been molested by multiple family members as a child.
In terms of the industry, “I’ve allowed my talents to be used for the wrong reasons,” Braxton wrote in her Instagram post. “I have allowed myself to be used in too many ‘angry black girl’ narratives. I’m not angry at all.”
She expressed the desire to “personally fight for brown girls to have more ownership and not just be a slave to the industry,” Braxton wrote. “Black women are the unvalued and unprotected.”
Braxton, the younger sister of Grammy-winning singer Toni Braxton, declared herself to be “on a never-ending battle to be the best Tamar Braxton I can be. God has brought me through a lot, so I would like to pass it on to use my voice to help brown women and ALL women in these similar situations,” she concluded. “We all have the opportunity to evolve. For now on it’s me vs me.”