(Shaun) So Kaleigh went away to college
where she studied journalism and communication and struggled that first
year, didn't talk to anybody about it,
didn't talk to her friends, didn't talk to us about it.
(Selme) She had a really tough first semester. It was a study abroad.
And so she was in Paris, which sounds amazing.
And, you know, depending on personalities, I guess looking back. For me,
I think she was just too young to be going off and doing that.
And I guess just, you know, looking back again with the state of her
mental health, like it was-- it was too much for her.
(Megan) It was hard for her to feel comfortable
I think like addressing that she actually felt these feelings.
You could tell she was more sad closer to
when she passed, when she went to college. (Grace) She would say, yeah, these like,
extreme things like "I want to get eaten
by a shark" or, you know, something very odd,
but it was hiding the red flag that was there, but she was still trying to, like,
make it funny or make it seem less serious then it was.
(Shaun) So Kaleigh was struggling during that freshman year and we knew she was
having a tough year, particularly the first semester. But I
never really thought she was struggling from a mental health perspective.
She never talked to anyone about suicide.
She never said to anyone she's having suicidal thoughts.
And then summer after her freshman year at USC, she-- she passed away.