Jontay Porter reveals he contemplated suicide after NBA gambling ban
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He was soon banned from the N.B.A. Kelli considered divorcing him. Jontay Googled whether or not he could still go to Heaven if he killed himself. He bought a gun. “There was one incident where I—I don’t even think my wife knows this—but I held it to my head and I was just crying: ‘I can’t do this anymore,’ ” he said. Gambling has the highest suicide rate of any addiction; nearly twenty per cent of addicts attempt to take their own lives. But, as he thought about pulling the trigger, he imagined his unborn son. “I can’t leave this earth without meeting him,” he said.
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