Demi Moore and Nia Vardalos Intervene in Twitter Suicide Threat
Twitter has been derided for overwhelming followers with the boring minutiae of other users' daily lives and contributing towards narcissism. But it can also save lives. Hollywood actors Demi Moore and Nia Vardalos were linked to a series of Twitter posts that led Florida police to intervene in a threatened suicide attempt, reported
KTLA news.
Moore's
Twitter account responded to a tweet from a young man who had threatened to hang himself in Casselberry, a town north of Orlando, Florida. Her account, mrskutcher, includes more than 2.5 million followers. She and actor husband Ashton Kutcher are both heavily involved in the online social network/microblogging service.
Vardalos' self-named account also included a message detailing how she had been connected to Florida police after calling a suicide hotline. One of her messages reads, "I gave his name+city. They went to home, helped him."
Calls from California and Vancouver were received around 2:30 AM by the Seminole County Sheriff's Office in Florida. The callers reported the suicide threat on Twitter. Lt. Sonia Pisano said the callers had not been named. She also stated that deputies removed an uninjured young man from a Florida home and took him to a hospital. No other specifics were disclosed. Neither Moore nor Vardalos have commented since the incident.
This is Moore's second celebrity Twitter intervention. Last April, her account was involved when a California woman also threatened to kill herself. San Jose police were called about a suicide attempt that had been previously tweeted to Moore. A psychiatric evaluation was eventually conducted on the woman.
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I am downtrodden for you, Sandra. I am not usually caught up in the personal lives of Hollywood actors (and actresses) but because I am such a fan of yours, I am crushed for you. You not only are a great actress, you seem GENUINE to me. I am so sorry that you have to go through this, but I know you well enough to know that you will do so with the same class with which you carry yourself every time I hear and see you out of a role and speaking for your self. ALL men are not like the Hollywood crowd seem to be. I'd give you a hug and cry with you if I was there. My prayers are with you.
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Karma is a b itch! She should have stayed out of the custody battle and taken a hard look at him. Everyone knew he is a low life, she choose to wear blinders. Plus living with a control freak isn't easy either. Makes for a nice "Hollywood" movie though, don't you think. Live in a dream world sooner or later you have to wake up.
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We do not know these people....I would venture to say that most of the responses are from the PopEater staff to get a dialogue going and to perpetuate mess. HELLO OUT THERE WE DO NOT KNOW THESE PEOPLE...WHAT WE THINK ABOUT THEM "NOW GET READY FOR THIS"...DOES NOT F*%^N MATTER...You guy's need to wake up and get a life!
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Sandra Bullock's marriage was a sham from the start. Jesse James is not in her league, and this woman that he slept with is EXACTLY the kind of woman I would have imagined him to be with in the first place.
The was some spectlation years ago about Sandra Bullock, and then she married Jesse James - as if the surpress those rumors.
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I thought this story was about Demi Moore? Sandras marriage is in trouble, her privacy has been taken away. Shes been humiliated publicly by her husband. Shes a great actress and a great person, she sure didnt deserve what her cheap husband did to her. I am sure that she will make the right choice for her, and the children. The trash he cheated with should be so ashamed of her self. But I dont think she is. Those kinds of woman are all over the place, and will cheat with almost any married man. To those kinds, they think they are something if a married man shows them any kind of attention. And why is it that some men find these kinds of tattooed bimbos hot? Because of the way they look so cheap and easy. Anyone can see these types, and they may as well have an 'open' sign on their foreheads. Thats why some of these types of ladies wear a lot of tats for.. its called the easy, cheap look.
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