Tyra Spaulding, a former Miss Jamaica Universe contestant, was found deceased at her home in Kingston, Jamaica on Tuesday. She was 26.
Family members found Spaulding hanging from a bed frame with a pink curtain tied around her neck.
The Jamaica Gleaner reported Spaulding’s death on Wednesday, Sept. 24.
According to the Jamaica Observer newspaper, Spaulding’s death occurred sometime around 6:55 pm on Tuesday.
Spaulding competed in the Miss Universe Jamaica Pageant in 2023. She was known for her advocacy for mental health and suicide prevention.
Spaulding reportedly told her friends and colleagues that she was hearing voices in the months before she died.
In an August 15 Instagram post, she revealed she was “going through hell.”
In a YouTube video dated Sept. 4 and titled “DON’T BE SAD 
CHEER UP!” Spaulding said, “I can’t understand why. It’s like there’s two different me’s. One of them wants me to live and one of them wants me to die. They want me to die. It’s me against me over here.”
Spaulding said people who suffer from delusions don’t live to tell their story.
“Their mind just consumes them and they just end up killing themselves,” she said.
“Why do we do it? Is it the devil possessing us? I don’t know,” she continued. “Like what is this? Something keeps telling me that, you know, life would just be easier if I wasn’t here.”
She added, “It’s either I die now or die later when I’m old and grey.”
Watch the video below.
