James Ransone spent his entire life battling personal demons and trying to overcome past trauma. He grew up in poverty with an alcoholic parent who suffered from PTSD, was bullied relentlessly by peers, experienced SA by a trusted adult as a child, and turned to painkillers and later heroin to cope. He eventually hit a wall where his options, from his view, were suicide or rehab - he chose rehab. That was 19 years ago.
He had a career, he got married, he had kids. He was trying to address the things he once used drugs to escape from. But he also had serious mental health struggles. He wasn’t perfect, he was ‘problematic’ at times, but he was also very unwell and spoke openly about how he frequently questioned his own reality. He was paranoid and nervous. Certain fanbases didn’t help with that, leading him to largely leave social media to take care of himself and focus on his family.
I don’t know what he’s gone through very recently, I stopped keeping up some time ago, but I’m saddened to hear that it ended this way after all he’s survived up to this point. I feel sad for his wife and young kids. And I feel sad for him.
RIP
