{"id":291783,"date":"2023-09-20T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T08:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=291783"},"modified":"2023-09-20T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T08:36:00","slug":"mma-angela-lee-reveals-hawaii-car-crash-in-2017-was-a-suicide-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/mma\/mma-angela-lee-reveals-hawaii-car-crash-in-2017-was-a-suicide-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA: Angela Lee reveals Hawaii car crash in 2017 was a suicide attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>MMA fighter Angela Lee reveals 2017 crash &#8211; when her car &#8216;flipped over about six times&#8217; &#8211; was a SUICIDE ATTEMPT&#8230; after previously saying she &#8216;dozed off&#8217; behind the wheel<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Six years ago, Lee had to lose 12lbs for a fight in MMA&#8217;s ONE Championship<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8216;I decided to get in my car and leave it up to fate to see what happens next,&#8217; she revealed<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>DailyMail.com provides all the latest international sports news\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Angela Lee &#8211; the current ONE atomweight world champion &#8211; has revealed that her 2017 car crash, during which her vehicle &#8216;flipped over about six times&#8217;, was a suicide attempt after previously stating that she &#8216;dozed off&#8217; behind the wheel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the 27-year-old MMA fighter detailed her struggles with mental health, which led to her contemplating suicide just days before a scheduled fight, in an powerful essay published online.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lee claims that she was going through an arduous weight cut, six years ago, when she realised her &#8216;body was fighting against me, and I had run out of time&#8217;. Eventually she &#8216;broke&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My car crash in November 2017 was not an accident. It was a suicide attempt,&#8217; Lee wrote in an article on\u00a0<span>The Players&#8217; Tribune<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was getting ready for my last title defense of the year, things started to snowball for me. Pressure, stress, and expectations all began to build up. I had tunnel vision and though that this upcoming fight was the most important thing in my life. Looking back now, I had everything I could have wanted at the time, but I I didn&#8217;t realize it. Didn&#8217;t fully appreciate it. Because I had gotten to a place where making weight for that fight was the biggest thing in the world to me.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/05\/75626039-12538699-image-m-60_1695185353715.jpg\" height=\"784\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Angela Lee has revealed that her 2017 crash, when her car &#8216;flipped&#8217;, was a suicide attempt\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/05\/75626033-12538699-image-a-57_1695185327489.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lee (left, fighting Jenny Huang in 2017) is the current\u00a0ONE atomweight world champion<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/05\/75626029-12538699-image-a-58_1695185333063.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lee said she had to lose 12lbs for the fight but her body wasn&#8217;t reacting well to the weight loss<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I told myself: If you don&#8217;t get this done, you&#8217;ll lose everything. And, as an athlete, in all honesty, that mentality can be useful and motivating. But it&#8217;s also a double-edged sword. And, with me, I got to a point where I had pushed my mind and body too far. I couldn&#8217;t stop thinking about the shame that would result if I wasn&#8217;t able to make the fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As someone who had never missed any competition in her entire life, that terrified me. It became all-encompassing,&#8217; added Lee. &#8216;And, ultimately, I got to a point where I would rather take myself out of the equation than deal with what might come. That&#8217;s where my head was at. It was all or nothing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that she had lose 12 pounds, Lee admitted to trying to harm herself so that she couldn&#8217;t fight. She initially attempted to break her own arm before setting out to give herself a concussion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>None of those options worked, so Lee went for a late-night drive near her place of residence in the Hawaiian town of Waipahu to take her own life.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/05\/75626043-12538699-image-a-59_1695185342333.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lee also revealed that she still cries when opening up about the traumatic life episode in 2017<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I just pressed my foot all the way down on the gas pedal. As far down as it would go,&#8217; Lee recalled. &#8216;I don&#8217;t know how fast I was going. But it was as fast as my car could move. I wanted to hit the guardrail as hard as I could, and I just remember turning the steering wheel and swerving then hitting something, and then it was just&#8230; rolling. Rolling and rolling and rolling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When I opened my eyes, I was upside down. There was shattered glass everywhere. I remember waiting around in that car for a bit of time, hanging upside down, just basically trying to process everything. Like&#8230;. Am I still here? Am I still alive?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In the months and years after her car crash, Lee said that only her husband knew the reality of what happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian-born American grappler also remembers the long journey it took for her to finally come to terms with what transpired, as she tried to rebound from the attempted suicide.<\/p>\n<p>She said that sharing her story still makes her cry and her voice tremble.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/mma\/article-12538699\/MMA-fighter-Angela-Lee-reveals-2017-crash-car-flipped-six-times-SUICIDE-ATTEMPT-previously-saying-dozed-wheel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMA fighter Angela Lee reveals 2017 crash &#8211; when her car &#8216;flipped over about six times&#8217; &#8211; was a SUICIDE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MMA: Angela Lee reveals Hawaii car crash in 2017 was a suicide attempt - All My Sports News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/mma\/mma-angela-lee-reveals-hawaii-car-crash-in-2017-was-a-suicide-attempt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MMA: Angela Lee reveals Hawaii car crash in 2017 was a suicide attempt - All My Sports News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"MMA fighter Angela Lee reveals 2017 crash &#8211; 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