Father blames Netflix series ’13 Reasons Why’ for daughter’s suicide

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 29 June 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Bella Herndon died a week after her parents found the high school sophomore hanging in her bedroom closet. Her friends told her father days later that the 15-year-old had been watching the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” in the weeks before her suicide. John Herndon tells Nancy Grace in this episode why he thinks the controversial show about teen suicide triggered his daughter’s death.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Hannah.
0:06.3	The Netflix show 13 Reasons Why has been criticized for glorifying suicide, because I'm about
0:11.8	to tell you the story of my life, more specifically why my life ended.
0:15.8	The fictional series features a high school girl who sends tapes to students and a teacher
0:20.9	explaining how they wronged her.
0:22.6	If you're listening to this tape, you're one of the reasons why.
0:24.8	Everyone is just so nice until they drive you to kill yourself.
0:28.5	This is crime stories with Nancy Grace.
0:31.4	They were just 15 years old.
0:33.0	They both took their lives just days after watching a controversial show on Netflix 13
0:37.6	Reasons Why.
0:38.6	I love you, Mommy.
0:39.9	My daughter was a hero.
0:41.9	She had straight A's and writing was her passion.
0:44.8	She loved English.
0:45.8	It was her favorite class.
0:46.8	She was going to be a writer.
0:47.8	Bella had been battling depression and she'd been bullied since middle school.
0:51.2	But in the weeks before she took her life, she seemed happy.
0:54.1	She was doing great.
0:58.3	Bella Herndon, a little sophomore in high school.
1:04.4	Absolutely beautiful.
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