Demi Moore Responds to Twitter Suicide Threat

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10:16 am, March 19th, 2010

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Demi Moore used Twitter to help stop a potential suicide.

Early Friday, a man near Orlando tweeted Moore with the disturbing message that he was “about to go hang” himself. “I have no reason to live anymore,” the man wrote, later adding, “No one cares if I die or not.”

Moore, whose @mrskutcher account has more than 2.5 million Twitter followers, quickly asked, “R U rlly asking 4 help?”

The man replied, “Yes.”

Moore’s rapid response and high visibility may have helped avert tragedy.

Actress Nia Vardalos (@NiaVardalos) also saw the man’s desperate tweet and alerted a suicide prevention hotline and Florida authorities.

The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office says law enforcement received two phone calls from the West Coast reporting the suicide threat.

Deputies went to a home and took a (thankfully) uninjured juvenile male to a local hospital.

Moore and husband Ashton Kutcher are both very engaged in social media. Today it may have helped save a young life.

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